Baptcb.org
Title
Bangladesh Association for Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology (BAPTC&B)
Description
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- Workshop in Plant Tissue Culture to create interest among related scientists : In order to create an interest in the fast developing science of plant tissue culture among plant scientists, agriculture specialists and policy makers, a few staff members of the Botany Department, Dhaka University approached the Bangladesh Agricultural research Council (BARC) for funding an international conference on various aspects of tissue culture both from theoretical and practical point of view. Dr. Kazi Baduruddoza, the then Chairman of this organization bought the idea and provided adequate funds to organize a workshop in 1981. Selected scientists from various institutes and universities were participants. Among instructors were distinguished tissue culture scientists from all over the world: Professor T. A. Thorpe from Canada, Professor M. C. Rush from the USA, Dr. Deepak Pental from England, Dr. Krishnamurthy from the Fiji Islands, Late Professor YPS Bajaj, Professor Sipra Guha and Professor S.K. Sen from India, Late Professor Guzman and Dr. F. Z. Zapata from the Philippines, Dr. Goh from Singapore and many more. The proceedings were published with a set of recommendations made by the instructors with the cooperation of local scientists . The recommendations were forwarded to the British Council (BC) and other donor agencies. The response came only from the BC. They agreed to fund a 3-year exchange programme between Dhaka – and Nottingham University. A number of scientists from the Botany Department got trained in tissue culture techniques in Nottingham University. The Chief Technician from Nottingham University came for 6 weeks and helped set up the tissue culture lab in the Botany department, Dhaka University. In the meantime, the then Cholera Research Laboratory offered the use of their LAMINAR FLOW facilities to the students of the Botany Department, Dhaka University. Some Botany students took advantage of their generous gesture and completed their thesis work on such areas such as jute protoplast isolation and their culture. Request was sent to all general universities as well as to Bangladesh Agriculture University and research institutes to build their own tissue culture laboratories.
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