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Recent Cell Biological Insights on Organelle Interactions in Plants (Jaideep Mathur, University of Guelph)

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The GARP transcription factor SlGCC affects root development and negatively regulates salt tolerance (Vidhu A. Sane CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow)

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Small auxin upregulated (saur) gene for the improvement of root system architecture, water logging tolerance, drought resistance and yield in plants (Babu Valliyodan, Lincoln University)

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Accelerating plant growth cycles and reducing maturity time can differently affect stress responses (Aniruddha P. Sane, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow)

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Image and cyber physical systems-based high throughput phenotyping aimed at crop improvement (Krishna Jagadish SV, Texas Tech University Lubbock)

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Insights on mechanisms that determine the trade-off between grain protein content and yield in Rice (M.S. Sheshshayee, GKVK, UAS (B))

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Radiotracers and Radiation in Agriculture: Understanding and improving the Source-Sink Relationship and Mineral Nutrition of Crops (Bhupinder Singh, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi)

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Plant signal transduction, gene expression and nitrogen use efficiency (N. Raghuram, GGS Indraprastha University)

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Warnings from warm nights on cereal productivity (Impa Somayanda, Texas Tech University Lubbock)

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Diverse rice germplasm evaluated in low phosphorus soils identifies donors and traits governing phosphorus deficiency tolerance (Renu Pandey, ICAR-IARI)

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Mitigation of abiotic stresses in pulse crops (Amaregouda, UAS Raichur)

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Core regulators and divergent cell states identified through comparative single-cell omics (Sunil Kenchamane Raju, New York University, NY)

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 Resilience of future crop varieties will be driven by better roots: insights into major root phenes and plasticity in cereals and pulses (Parvaze A Sofi, SKUAST-K, Wadura, J&K)

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Mechanisms of plant growth and developmental pattern in relation to plant signaling processes (Swarup Roy Choudhury, IISER, Tirupati)

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S. Gopala Krishnan, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi