Scientists Develop Salt Tolerant Rice Variety

Scientists Develop Salt Tolerant Rice Variety

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A group of Indian scientists has developed a new salt-tolerant transgenic rice plant by over-expressing a gene from wild rice called Porteresia coarctata into the commonly used IR 64 indica rice variety. Porteresia coarctata is a native of India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Myanmar and is grown mainly in saline estuaries
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NIPGR Researchers Open a Window on the Secrets of Plant Life to Public

NIPGR Researchers Open a Window on the Secrets of Plant Life to Public

On October 26, 2018, New Delhi based National Institute of Plant Genome Research, an autonomous institute under the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, had organized an Open day for the general public in order to popularize research in plant sciences and its applications

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Indian Scientists Use CRISPR to Edit Banana Genome

Banana is a popular fruit crop and in India is its largest producer globally. It is the fourth most important food crop after wheat, rice, and corn in terms of gross value of production. Now Indian scientists have used latest gene-editing techniques to modify the banana genome, for the first time.

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Faced With Climate Change, Nagaland to Revive Traditional Rice Varieties

Rising temperature, erratic rainfall, and occurrence of moderate drought are beginning to impact food production in Nagaland. In order to meet the challenge of climate change, the state is now turning to its forgotten resource

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