🇮🇳 India approves its 1st genome-edited rice using CRISPR-Cas:
🌾 DRR Rice 100 (Kamla)
🌾 Pusa DST Rice 1
🚫Not GMOs — no foreign DNA.
🌿Boosts yield, climate resilience, and low water requirement.
Developed by @icar_iirr & @iaripusa1.
#CRISPR#Rice@ViswaChinnusamy@skmdrr
Please RT ‼️ Mendel Early Career Symposium registration is now open! #PhDs, #Postdocs, #Young_PIs, please join us! Register early as we will cap it at 120 to keep it interactive. https://t.co/yMHC2490ad #Mendel_ECR_22
#ICAR have developed 51 integrated farming systems suitable to various States of India.
They offer scope to provide #sustainable production, profit & employment besides household level #food & #nutritonal security. #PMKisan
Read this #ICAR Publication 👉https://t.co/l6PIgJlY6A
Interested to learn about next generation sequencing & high-throughput genotyping for #climate resilient & higher nutrition crop varieties in #legumes?
Listen Dr @rajvarshney's views in a webinar on 5th Nov, organized by @lifesciences_GE
Register at : https://t.co/macDRk9kC8
Our plant transformation protocol is out! See our detailed protocol to make tiny nanotubes that stick to DNA and slip through cell walls to deliver DNA plasmids 🧬to plants 🌿, out today in @NatureProtocols : https://t.co/0cumQ9H4H5 |
@plantae_org | @igisci | @USDA_NIFA |
BREAKING NEWS:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme (WFP).
#NobelPrize#NobelPeacePrize
The @WFP has been awarded the 2020 #NobelPeacePrize for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.
WFP is deeply humbled to receive the 2020 #NobelPeacePrize.
This is in recognition of the work of WFP staff who put their lives on the line every day to bring food and assistance to more than 100 million hungry children, women and men across the world.
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2020 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”
Happy to share that the 1st International Electronic Conference on Plant Science will be held online from 1 to 15 December 2020.
https://t.co/svEWthZ65P