Acknowledgments
We thank Dr. P.V. Sane, Ex-Director NBRI, Dr. P. Pushpangadan Ex-Director NBRI and Dr. Rakesh Tuli, President ISEB and Director NBRI for providing constant guidance, advice, and support during and after the conference. We also thanks senior officials of ISEB and Members of Apex Committee ICPEP-3 including Drs. B.P. Singh (Advisor), S.C. Sharma (Vice-President), Prakash Chandra (Treasurer), H.M. Behl (Executive Editor), and Prof. N.K. Mehrotra (Member) for their organizational support and help. We are grateful to Prof. Muhammad Iqbal, Head, Department of Botany, Hamdard University, New Delhi, for compiling the report of the Satellite session and to Er. Jamal Masood for his consistent guidance and advice.
The technical support provided by Messrs D.B. Shukla, D.K. Chakraborty, and Vijay Yadav is gratefully acknowledged.
We wish to express our deep sense of gratitude to the following national and international organizations, academies and government departments for co-sponsoring this Conference: United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization, Paris; International Union of Biological Sciences, Paris; International Society of Food, Agriculture & Environment, Helsinki; Indo-US Science & Technology Forum, New Delhi; Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi; Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi; Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi; Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi; Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, New Delhi, AMITY, Noida; U.P. Council of Science & Technology, Lucknow.
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Communicated by K.J. Ahmad, 16 March 2006