Biotech Updates

Plant Stress Tolerance Conference in Austria

January 16, 2009

An International Conference on Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance is scheduled to be held at Vienna, Austria on February 8-11, 2009. Topics to be covered during the conference include: plant response to cold, heat, drought and nutrient stresses, signal transduction and functional genomics of abiotic stress tolerance in plants and current developments and the role of biotechnology in developing stress tolerant plants.

More information is available at http://www.univie.ac.at/stressplants/Home.html