Monday, 11 August 2025
B N Tripathi, Deputy Director General (Animal Sciences), ICAR, and the National Coordinator, Vice-chaired the Session and also act as Rapporteur. In the recently concluded 12th Session of the Intergovernmental…
The new company will facilitate trait development and next-generation plant breeding Calyxt, Inc. a plant-based synthetic biology company, and Cibus, a leader in precision gene editing in agriculture, announced that…
Using this technology, superior males and females can be produced which shall be useful in improving the genetic progress of the breed. Continuing with their success in the field of…
Advanta interested to further work closely with IRRI to leverage knowledge and experience in rice science to create market-differentiating breeding products A delegation from Advanta Seeds from India and the…
Technology to contribute significantly towards increasing farmers’ income by reducing the economic/ yield loss caused due to weeds and will also broaden the compatible herbicide spectrum in rice ‘HT trait…
NGETC will serve as a national platform to cater to the regional needs to adapt different genome editing methods, including CRISPR-Cas mediated genome modification Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of…
ICAR has initiated a network project on All India Coordinated Research Project on Biotech crops which has both research and third-party evaluation components for the targeted traits Dr Himanshu Pathak,…
DMH-11 has been tested for three years against national check Varuna and zonal check RL1359 in confined field trials at multiple locations in India. According to Dr Jitendra Singh Union…
It will enhance productivity in the drought-prone areas of Central Zone consisting of Madhya Pradesh, Bundelkhand Area of UP, Chhattisgarh, Southern Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujarat, where terminal drought is a…
Both companies are hopeful of obtaining necessary policy support to further advance the technology involved PlantArcBio Ltd, an ag-biotech company specialising in research and development in the field of gene…
The Supreme Court of India has raised a very pertinent observation seeking compelling reasons for the release of GM mustard in its hearing held on Dec 2, 2022. In response,…
– Sir Richard John Roberts, British Biochemist and Molecular Biologist & Winner of 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared his views on the future of GM crops and…
By Dr R A Marathe, Director, ICAR-National Research Centre on Pomegranate (NRCP), Solapur, Maharashtra Pomegranate is one of the most remunerative fruit crops of semi-arid tropics and India is the…
Researchers could clear mercury from both fresh and salt water in 48 hours by mixing in Metarhizium University of Maryland Researchers have found that the fungus Metarhizium robertsii removes mercury…
