India
is home to billions of diverse microbes, many of which are
found no where else in the world. The country is also endowed
with enormous variability in agriculturally important microorganisms
(AIMs).
The variability in fungi, bacteria, actinomycetes, viruses,
cyanobacteria etc., seem to have coevolved with their hosts
vis a vis environment, and form invaluable gene pool resources.
Due to intensification of agricultural practices and population
pressure, the microbial variability is eroding very fast.
It is well recognized that once a variant is lost, it is lost
forever.
Therefore, it is imperative to conserve and characterize the
valuable AIMs for its optimum utilization by the coming generations.
The understanding of AIMs diversity will be a critical aspect
of future agriculture since microbial diversity is the basis
for emergence of plant diseases and so the control of their
productivity, as well as providing new ways to identify products
of microbial origin.
The microorganisms present in the diversified agro-ecosystems
of India will also provide a valuable source of bioactive
compounds. Because of the revolution in microbiology, stemming
mainly from the development of the new molecular biology tools,
it is possible to significantly increase the knowledge on
diversity of microbial life on earth in cost-effective way.
Programme to harvest microbial diversity have already begun
in many countries. Because of the revolution in modern techniques
to utilize microbes for agricultural products, stemming mainly
from the development of the new molecular biology tools.
A significant increase of the knowledge on diversity of AIMs
have already begun in many other countries andtherefore in
the time to come, the following works have to be done for
our present and future benefits. The extent and magnitude
of AIMs diversity in India and conservation of the AIMs; agro-ecological
environment in India supports the greatest AIMs diversity
and ways by which it can be further exploited for modern agriculture.
SAIMGR was founded to achieve these goals and is registered
under Society Registration Act 21, 1860, No. 183 dated 15/06/2005.Its
headquaters at National Bureau of Agriculturally Important
Microorganisms, Kusmaur, Mau, U.P.
Patron
Mangala Rai, Secretary (DARE) and Director General, ICAR, New
Delhi
President
Dilip K Arora, Director, NBAIM, Mau,U.P.
Secretary
A. K. saxena, Sr. Scientist, NBAIM,
Mau
Treasurer
Alok K Srivastava, Sr. Scientist, NBAIM, Mau
Members
of Advisory Board
A. N. Mukhopadhyay, Ex-VC, AAU, assam
Amerika Singh, Director, NCIPM, New Delhi
B. L. Jalali Ex. Director of Research, CCS, HAU
C. D. Mayee, Chairman, ASRB, New Delhi
Gyanikmanicum, Madras University, Madras
Hari Gopal, Advisor, DST, New Delhi
Kiran singh, Head, Microbiology, Bhopal University
R. J. Rabindra, Director, PDBC, Bangalore
R. K. Saxena, Department of Microbiology, Delhi University,
New Delhi
R. P. Thakur, ICRISAT, Hyderabad Seema Wahab, Advisor, DBT,
New Delhi
Ramesh Sonti, CCMB, Hyderabad
S. A. Patil, Director, IARI, New Delhi
S. M. Paul Khurana, VC, JNKVV, Jabalpur
S. N. Puri, VC, AAU Jorhat
S.P.S. Khanuja, Director, CIMAP, Lucknow
T. P. Rajendran, ADG (PP), ICAR, New Delhi
Y. R. Sarma,Former Director, IISR, Calicut
International
Advisory Group
M.
W. Lee, Korea
Randy Berka, USA
G. B. Singh, USA
David Smith, CABI-UK
Paul Kirk, CABI-UK
