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Dr. Ir. Miftahudin M.Si. attended the 7th International Crop Science Congress (7th ICSC) in Beijing on 14-19 August 2016. He presented his part of the research titled Silencing a gene encoding a protein containing ribosomal L32-like motif causes rice roots more sensitive to aluminum stress. His research is funded by Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education under scheme International Collaboration and Scientific Publication F.Y. 2016.

The 7th ICSC was attended by 314 oral  and 924 poster presenters from many different countries around the world. The 7th ICSC is the first ICSC event that is held in China and was hosted by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Crop Science Society of China. The theme of the conference was “Crop Science–Innovation and Sustainability”. The 1st ICSC was held in Ames, Iowa State, USA, and the following events were in India, Germany, Australia, South Korea, and Brazil.