Greatest Scientist Dr.Maksudul Alam

Dr. Maqsudul Alam discovering the sequence of the fungus that destroy our jute.

The fungus – macrophomina phaseolina- is responsible for damaging jute and 500 more crops. 30% of the jute in our country are destroyed by this fungus causing loss of Tk. 4000 crore per year. By applying this gene code of fungus and jute code that he discovered 2 years back, new varieties of jute can be developed that will be finer in form and more resistant to fungus.
The project was financed by Bangladesh Government. The news was disclosed by the PM in the Parliament. The article was published in BMC Genomics on 17 September 2012. 17 scientists of different labs worked in the team. Final sequence of fungus gene was unveiled in the BARI laboratory, Dhaka.
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U.S. Joint Initiatives in Modern Agric Technology in Bangladesh

U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozina has expressed interest to undertake joint initiatives with Bangladesh Agricultural University to expedite agricultural development through sharing of modern technologies. During his visit and meeting with high officials on July 17, 2012, he emphasized the need for sustained crop production by harnessing emerging new avenues like biotechnology.
Mozina also expressed his government's desire to cooperate in establishing a gene bank, semen bank and cryopreservation system of crops, fish and animal. He noted that the existing Germplasm Centre, Central Lab and Agricultural Museum at BAU was satisfactory. BAU, according to the Ambassador has significant contributed to agricultural development, food sufficiency and poverty alleviation and that the U.S. would help to further enhance its activities.
Dr. Md Rafiqul Hoque, BAU Vice Chancellor, and local state administrators gave their commitments to meet the goal of making the university a center of excellence.

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