From the Coordinator’s Desk!
Dear Readers,
I wish you all a Happy New Year 2021 and Seasons Greetings!
This year, we all have gone through some tough time
combating COVID-19 pandemic and the glad news is that we
have contained the COVID-19 disease effectively. The planet
has provided us with everything and sometimes we have
exploited it more than it provides. At present, we are at an
exceptional time where the nature is sending us message that if
we need to care for ourselves, we must take care of nature
itself. In our country, there is air pollution beyond
measurement at our capital due to burning of agriculture waste
at nearby states, floods in the cities due to encroachment of
lakes and rivers, pollution of water bodies, reduction of forest
covers in major cities due to rapid developments and so on.
These are only few of the stress that our country’s
environment faces. The impact is seen through reduced
population in our flora and fauna, while some have gone
extinct. Though at present we all are aware of these
environmental issues and to some extent we as an individual
take effort to reduce them, yet, these are not sufficient. It is
time we act collectively and I hope that will definitely improve
the quality of the environment at an increased pace.
Each newsletter published by us has a unique article and
this issue also has an article on plant and microbial pathogen
interaction. Apart from the article there are information on
various interesting topics such vaccine adjuvant strengthening
immune response, detecting COVID-19 infection using a
sensor at home, fats inside our cells fight bacteria, and many
more. I hope you will find this issue also very interesting to
you.
Dr. C. Arulvasu
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ENVIS Centre Team
Dr. C. Arulvasu
Co-ordinator
Mr. G. Karuna Sagaran
Scientist –D
Mr. P. Thirumurugan
Programme Officer
Mr. D. Siva Arun
Programme Assistant
Mr. V. Balaji
Data Entry Operator |
Editorial
Board
Dr. C. Arulvasu
Dr. G. Karuna Sagaran |
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