Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida In green plants and some other organisms, sunlight is used for producing nutrients from carbon dioxide and water. Plants generate oxygen through photosynthesis by using the green pigment chlorophyll. A dynamic process According to a new model developed by the University of Illinois, photosynthesis is more of […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow CRISPR-Cas9 technology is recently being extensively applied in human diseases research in study and effective treatment. Along with its huge therapeutic potential, the technique is also being explored in various other areas where gene editing could improve breeds and promote desirable traits. Traditional approaches to selective breeding in the […]
Esha Mukherjee, Amity University Noida Monocultures now dominate arable land, with enormous swaths of land dedicated to a single, high-yielding elite variety. However, planting only one type of crop on the arable ground has its drawbacks: these regions are easy prey for fungal and insect pests, posing a threat to agriculture. Farmers must utilize resistant […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University Noida CRISPR is a highly innovative technique, used in gene editing. Usually, CRISPR is known to eliminate undesirable genes, but activation of genes to provide the functionality to a plant or organisms is pretty new. But recently a study conducted by a group of researchers in Nature Plants, headed by […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata India, a land that depends on agriculture is also a country that has yet to walk a long way to be known as a developed country. Thus, we depend mostly on cattle and not on machines for farming purposes. The water buffalo is one such cattle breed which is of […]
