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NAIP
The NAIP is to facilitate accelerated and sustainable transformation of Indian
agriculture in support of poverty alleviation and income generation by
collaborative development and application of agricultural innovation by
the public research organizations in partnership with the farmer’s groups,
the private sector, the civil society organizations and other stakeholders.
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BAM Project
India is fortunate to have a rich bio-diversity. Characterisation and utilisation of this
diversity is essential to meet the challenges of biotic and abiotic stresses under changing
climate. The present project proposal is a step in this direction. A long-term perspective of this
project is to:
- Prospect novel genes, promoters and alleles for economically important traits
using indigenous bioresources
- Functionally validate the new genes in model systems and
different genetic backgrounds,
- Transfer of the validated genes and alleles to recipient
species cutting across biological barriers and
- Develop highly competent groups of
scientists of international standard drawn from various disciplines and institutions for
undertaking research in genomics and its application for improvement of agricultural species.
In short-term, the project seeks to specifically
address four main objectives: - Generation of genomic resource base to facilitate gene
prospecting and allele mining,
- Prospecting for new genes and alleles for abiotic stress
tolerance (moisture stress, salinity and sodicity, soil acidity, adverse temperature and
submergence/anoxia),
- Functional validation of the identified genes in model plant systems
and
- Use of the identified genes/allele in genetic enhancement of target species.
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