Minutes of 78th RCGM meeting held on 23rd June, 2009

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4.2 Applications in the area <strong>of</strong> Agriculture. The Committee considered applications in the area <strong>of</strong> agriculture to receive uncharacterized T1 generation cotton seeds; import <strong>of</strong> seeds <strong>of</strong> GAT (glyphosate acetyl transferase) corn; transgenic rice lines; transgenic Arabidopsis seeds; lyophilized cotton leaf bits; cry1Ac-F and cry1Fa1gene gene construct in binary vector as Agrobacterium tumifacience/E.coli; transgenic lines <strong>of</strong> Arabidopsis transformed with plasmid vectors; Bacillus thuringiensis proteins; Cry3bB and TIC1088 protein standards; and transgenic crop species carrying the marker genes for development <strong>of</strong> protocols for detecting marker genes. The committee also considered applications to conduct confined field trials on BG-II Roundup Ready Flex cotton hybrids; to conduct net house trials on transgenic cotton and event selection trials in net house under confined field conditions for evaluation <strong>of</strong> transgenic groundnut plants etc. R&D proposal “Monitoring for changes in bollworm susceptibility to Bt toxins deployed in pest resistant in transgenic cotton plants” for joint funding <strong>of</strong> the project by MoE&F & DBT was also considered. After deliberation on each application, appropriate decision was taken. Information on R&D works submitted by IBSCs was also noted by <strong>RCGM</strong>. 5. Any other point with the permission <strong>of</strong> the Chairman. The next <strong>meeting</strong> <strong>of</strong> the <strong>RCGM</strong> was scheduled on 28.07.2009. No other transaction took place and the <strong>meeting</strong> ended with vote <strong>of</strong> thanks to the Chair. The minutes are approved. Place: Lucknow Date: 29.06.2009 Sd/ (Dr. V.P. Kamboj) Chairman, <strong>RCGM</strong> and INSA Honorary Scientist 2
List <strong>of</strong> participants Annexure-1 1. Dr. V.P. Kamboj, Honorary Scientist, INSA - Chairman 2. Dr. B. Sesikeran, NIN, Hyderabad - Member 3. Dr. Raj Bhatnagar, ICGEB, New Delhi - Member 4. Pr<strong>of</strong>. A.N. Radha, ITTR, Nagpur - Member 5. Dr. Anjali A. Karande - Member 6. Dr. D.P. Tiwari, GBPUA&T, Pant Nagar - Member 7. Dr. A.K. Panda, NII, New Delhi - Member 8. Dr. P.K. Gupta, CCSU, Meerut - Member 9. Dr. I.S. Katageri. ARS, Dharwad - Member 10. Dr. Jay. G. Varshney, DWSR, Jabalpur - Member 11. Dr. S.K. Majumdar, IISR, Lucknow - Member 12. Dr. Rakesh Tuli, NBRI, Lucknow - Member 13. Dr. P. Ananda Kumar, IARI, New Delhi - Representative <strong>of</strong> Director, IARI, New Delhi 14. Dr. K. Satyanarayana, ICMR, New Delhi - Member 15. Dr.S.R.Rao, Adviser, DBT - Member 16 Sh. S.Sinha, Adviser, DBT - Member 17. Mrs. Rajalakshmi Muralidharan, Scientist-D, DBT - Co-Member Secretary Other representatives: 18. Dr. Sriram Akundi, M/s. Biocon Ltd., Bangalore 19. Dr. Dev Chandran, M/s. Indian Immunologicals Ltd., Hyderabad 20. Mr. Mannan, M/s. Bharat Serum and Vaccines Ltd., Mumbai 21. Mr. Prakash, M/s. Bharat Serum and Vaccines Ltd., Mumbai 3
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Minutes of 78th RCGM meeting held on 23rd June, 2009

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