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 plant breeding ! Q. 1. What is plant breeding? Ans. Plant breeding is defined as the art, science and technology of improving genetic make-up of crop plants in relation to their economic use for mankind. Q. 2. Who defined plant breeding as current phase of crop evolution? Ans. N.W. Simmonds (1979) defined plant breeding [...]