Everything you need to know about plant breeders right ! Q. 1. What are Plant Breeders' Rights? Ans. The Plant Breeders' Rights programme was first established in 1987 under the Plant Variety Rights Act (PVRA), which was succeeded by the current- Plant Breeders' Rights Act 1994. (PBRA). Plant breeders' rights (PBR), also known as plant variety rights (PVR), are intellectual [...]
Everything you need to know about nanotechnology in crop improvement ! Q. 1. What do you mean by nanotechnology? Ans. The term nanotechnology was defined in 1974 by a professor from Tokyo Science University, Norio Taniguchi. By definition nanotechnology deals with units that are smaller than 100 nanometers. Nanotechnology has been defined in various ways. Some definitions of nanotechnology are [...]
Everything you need to know about mutation breeding ! Q. 1. What is mutation? Ans. Mutation refers to sudden heritable change in the phenotype of an individual. In molecular terms, mutation is defined as the permanent and relatively rare change in the number or sequence of nucleotide. Q. 2. Who first discovered mutation? Ans. Mutation was first discovered by Wright [...]