International Conference of international plant biotechnology Federation held in the United States

At the invitation of Dr Roger Beachy, President of the 12th IAPB International Conference and director of the food and Agriculture Research Institute of the U.S Department of agriculture, Chen Jing, associate researcher of the agricultural biotechnology research center of Chengdu Institute of biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently attended the 12th IAPB International Conference held in St Louis, Missouri The theme of this conference is "the improvement of agricultural biotechnology: food, biomaterials, energy and environmental sustainability" More than 800 experts and scholars from all over the world in the field of plant and agricultural biotechnology attended the conference The topics of the conference include plant molecular biology and functional genomics, plant tissue culture and transformation, plant metabolism engineering, crop resistance In the fields of molecular regulation and signal transmission, crop variety improvement and molecular breeding, transgenic energy plants, plant biotechnology and bioreactor, transgenic biological safety, etc The report and academic papers of this conference mainly reflect the latest research results and important technological progress in this field The representatives of Chengdu Institute of biology and the experts attending the conference had a positive academic exchange and discussion IAPB is the largest member group dedicated to plant tissue culture and biotechnology in the world, with more than 2000 members and 85 countries.