Year: 2021

Kenya opens the door to GMO cultivation

Eliud Kireger, highlighted the importance of developing insect-resistant corn by noting that Kenya “is losing about 40% of the 42 million bags of maize to stem-borer and other pests and we have to import to make up for the losses.” In addition to conducting research and commercializing GMO crops, Kenyan scientists are engaged in projects […]
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Genetic Engineering will Lead the way to Food Security, India must Invest in Research & Development

According to biotechnologist Dr., Deepak Pental said that the Breakthroughs in genetic engineering and editing are critical to India achieving a sustainable agricultural system of low-cost input and high yield, in New Delhi. Noting that the growing population will lead to a considerable food grain requirement, Pental, a genetics professor and former vice-chancellor of Delhi […]
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Functional Genomics can Assist Molecular Breeding of Maize

Tissue-culture-based genetic transformation, a commonly used maize breeding technique, however, is limited by two major roadblocks: First, the relative unavailability of genome sequences of inbred lines that show stark phenotypic variations and second, difficulty in inducing callus from immature maize embryos on tissue culture media—the initial step of genetic transformation. Dr. Yaou Shen of Sichuan […]
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Chinese Modern Technology Enthusiastic for Rice Production in Pakistan

Michael Guo, sales manager of Hefei Meyer optoelectronic technology international said that they started to sell the color sorter to the Pakistan market in 2008; it’s very hard to promote the Chinese Brand at the very beginning, as many people prefer to buy European and Japanese Brand. He said that in the first five years they only sold not […]
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