The 3rd International Conference on Agricultural and Biological Sciences (ABS 2017)
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Prof. Dr. Monir M. El-Husseini Professor of Environmental Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt |
Speech Title: Weather Engineering and its Undesirable Side Effects on the Environment, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Human Health Abstract: Weather engineering scientists developed a new chemtrail technology applied by jets in the stratosphere for decreasing the global warming. It is based on building synthetic chemical clouds of aluminum oxide as Welsbach particles to reflect the heat coming from the sun back in the upper atmosphere, and thus cooling the air on earth. The applied aerosol mixture contains also nanoparticles of barium monoxide which react with CO2 when reaching the troposphere turning into barium carbonate and bicarbonate leading to minimization of its content in the atmosphere on the long run. In 2000, the UN approved the first global weather engineering project in the history of mankind to combat the global warming by chemtrail technology for the period from 2000 to 2050 with a budget of US $ 50 billions ($ 1 bil/year) financed and completely managed by USA alone. Since the application took place on the global level, climatologists, biologists, agronomists, and medical institutions around the globe recorded and explained undesirable side effects of this technology with severe impact on the weather, natural resources of flora and fauna as well as on human health. More... |
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Prof. Dr. Moniruzzaman Khondker Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh |
Speech Title: Crop Plants: origin, diversity and global interdependence Abstract: Crop plants are cultivated plants, fungi and algae which are harvested for meeting the demand of our food, fodder, medicine, cloth, biofuel and other commodities used in our daily life. The concept first emerged in 1935 when Russian plant explorer Nikolai Vavilov proposed that the crop plants originated in areas of the world where they showed their greatest diversity and the farmers would have been selecting different types from their wild stocks for domestication and farming. Vavilov listed the wild relatives of crop plants as 151, belonging to 8 different areas of the world, the so called 8 centre of origin of crop plants. In the world, some 250000 plant species have so far been described of which 75000 provide edible products and 2000-3000 has been subjects of domestication. Prior to agriculture, food acquisition by humans depended on hunting game animals and gathering wild plants by the so called ‘Hunter Gatherers’. Agriculture is fairly a recent practice in the evolution of humankind and not older than 10 000 years. It spreads relatively quickly over the entire world and is now practiced on the five major continents. The diversity of crop plants took a historic turn via modern agriculture. Almost all the countries of the world have become interdependent in terms of crop plants. Our food supply, in a full extent is globalized. For example, chili peppers (Capsicum annuum L.) and tomatoes (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.), despite being their use in respective local foods of different countries, actually originated in South America. Greater than two-thirds of the crops that are used in national food items of many countries originally came from somewhere else of the world. The trend has accelerated over the past 50 years, making our entire food system completely global. Global interdependency of crop plants intervened by global facts like population increase, food security, climate change and genetic erosion are discussed. |
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Dr. Joris M. Koene, Assistant Professor, Animal Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Koene was born in Amsterdam, where he obtained his BSc and MSc in Biology at the Vrije Universiteit (The Netherlands). In 1995, he started his PhD in Montreal (Canada), which he completed in four years. After a brief post-doctoral research visit to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelpia (USA), he moved to the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet in Munster (Germany) in 2000. He did a two-year post-doc there, funded by prestigious stipends from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences. A Dutch career stimulation grant brought him back to Amsterdam, where he has been working and expanding his research group since 2002. Since then, he has received several important scientific awards and fellowships, has been (and still is) board member of several scientific societies and has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Animal Biology' since 2011 and Associate Editor of 'Journal of Molluscan Studies'. |
Speech Title: Sexual selection and reproduction from a different vantage point Abstract:While most researchers will immediately connect sexual selection with differences between males and females, I will provide a different vantage point by presenting how sexual selection processes affect simultaneous hermaphrodites. I will briefly review the evidence for sexual selection in hermaphroditic animals, and some of its bizarre consequences, and then present how accessory gland proteins can target their partner’s male function, besides affecting their partner’s female function. While these findings are of a fundamental nature, I will point out how these provide important insights into reproduction of plants and animals with different sexual systems. For more information, see http://www.joriskoene.com/ |
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