SRINAGAR, March 5 -- To educate and empower young faculty and researchers to become active agents of change in addressing the challenges posed by climate change to plant life and ecosystems, the Department of Botany, Kashmir University (KU) Monday inaugurated a two-day training workshop here.

Titled 'Monitoring plant phenology in an era of climate change', the workshop is part of the 'Social Scientific Responsibility' component of the project 'Functional diversity, phenology and frost resistance in plants under extreme Himalayan environments', is sponsored by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India.

KU Vice Chancellor, Prof Nilofer Khan, said that it is high time young faculty and researchers are equipped ...