(upbeat music)
-: When we talk about love, hate, smile, or stress,
we usually think about humans or animals,
but science has proved that plants also have
all kinds of emotions and reactions
and like humans, they don't like any kind of stress,
but unfortunately, they also face a lot of stresses,
like water stress, drought, salinity, etc.
But does that mean that they cannot
be grown under stressful conditions?
The answer is no, they can be, but how?
Well, lets put this to an example.
Suppose your professor got a challenging research project
and he needs a competent and productive student.
What do you think he should do?
Well, he'll definitely make a proper strategy first,
select a diverse panel of candidates,
check their resumes, and may even take an exam
to further explore their potential.
Now, in plant sciences, we call this
whole process a screening technique.
My research aims to screen rice cultures
based on morpho-physiological traits
and identify the ones having
high potential for stress tolerance.
And then further confirm their potential
at molecular level using genomorph association study
or GWAS, which examines the whole
genome set of cultures to find places
in the genomes called snips, cutials, or genes,
responsible for producing stress tolerance.
As a result, we can also determine
which of the morpho-physiological traits
are more important in screening for stress tolerance.
As shown here in Figure One, where the traits
that deviate more from the center are more likely
to have a higher number of significant snips
and thus possess high potential for stress tolerance.
GWAS can further tell us the exact number
of snips and genes responsible for policing
stress tolerance in any particular trait.
For example, like root length,
as shown here in Figure Two.
And then finally, the morpho-physiological screening
along with the genetic assessment
could be used to gather to classify
all the cultures into different categories.
As shown here in Figure Three,
which shows the exact number of drought,
salinity, and neat unstressed ricino types
that are found in my studies.
In conclusion, the integrated morpho-physiological screening
along with the genetic assessment
could be used to gather to identify
the stress-friendly traits, the stress tolerance rates,
snips, cutials, and A1 genes that are responsible
for producing stress tolerance in any crop.
My research also has a take-home
social message for all of you,
that, as humans, you also need to identify
all the stresses in your life and get rid of them
before they affect your performance.
Thank you. (upbeat tones)