Senior agricultural scientist and former Deputy Director General (crop sciences) of ICAR E.A. Siddiq has suggested the scientific community to identify genes that have not been identified so far in wild varieties of crops and study them for improving the productivity, particularly in paddy.
Speaking at a meeting organised by Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University(PJTSAU) on “identification and utilisation of novel genes of value and relevance for improvement of crop varieties suiting future challenges to Indian Agriculture” here on Saturday, he underscored the importance of unexplored genes from the wild varieties so that they could be utilised in the present day research programmes to improve productivity.
He opined that the modern breeding techniques developed in the field of genetics would help better study of genes among the wild varieties having unique qualities and bring them to light for the benefit of mankind.
