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Mahyco became India's first commercial entity to be accused of bio-piracy, or misappropriation, of local germplasm. [12] In October 2013, the Indian High Court was pursuing criminal proceedings against senior officials of Mahyco-Monsanto. [13] In June 2019 1,500 farmers gathered in India to protest and illegally plant GMO Brinjal seeds. [14]
Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. [1] It is used to improve the quality of plant products for use by humans and animals. [2] The goals of plant breeding are to produce crop varieties that boast unique and superior traits for a variety of applications.
The PPV&FR Act, 2001 was enacted to grant intellectual property rights to plant breeders, researchers and farmers who develop any new or extant plant varieties. The intellectual property right granted under PPV & FR Act, 2001 is a dual right – one is for the variety and the other is for the denomination assigned to it by the breeder.
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Dilbagh Singh Athwal (12 October 1928 – 14 May 2017) was an Indian-American [2] geneticist, plant breeder and agriculturist, known to have conducted pioneering research in plant breeding. [3]
Surinder Vasal is an Indian geneticist and plant breeder, known for his contributions in developing a maize variety with higher content of usable protein. [1] He was born on 12 April 1938 in Amritsar in the Indian state of Punjab and received a PhD in genetics and plant breeding.
Mutation breeding, sometimes referred to as "variation breeding", is the process of exposing seeds to chemicals, radiation, or enzymes [1] [2] in order to generate mutants with desirable traits to be bred with other cultivars. Plants created using mutagenesis are sometimes called mutagenic plants or mutagenic seeds.
New Breeding Techniques (NBT), also named New Plant Engineering Techniques, are a suite of methods that could increase and accelerate the development of new traits in plant breeding. [1] These new techniques, often involve 'genome editing' whose intention is to modify DNA at specific locations within the plants' genes so that new traits and ...