The seed seeds for seeds that regulate the genome are expected to address farmers within one year, that the waiting for the completion of intellectual property procedures, Viswanathan Chinnusamy, the common director (Research, ICar-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARi), New Dill.
Dr. Chinnuswamy, who led the development of Pusa DST Rice 1, was presented by Sree Visakham Thirune Endowment a lecture on “Genoma editing: India Troadblazing the way to the first modified rice variety” here on Monday. The lecture was organized by the Indian Society for Root Crops (ISRC) and ICAR-Ccentral Cores Research Institute (ICAR-CRI), Sreekariyam.
Several crops
Over the next five to six years, several agricultural crops edited by genome will be prepared for extensive cultivation. Genome adjustments, he said, helped to overcome the seed restrictions and allowed the addition of specific desired features.
V. Arnachalam, director, Jawaharlal Nezru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBgri), emphasized the potential of tuber crops in the fight against malnutrition. He also emphasized the use of genome editing to improve the yield and quality of crop.
The director of CTCRI G. Byju, who chaired, emphasized the role played by tuberopososis in the provision of food and nutritional security, from the time of Travancore to the present.
Published – 23 June 2025 20:29
