Tag: agricultural biotechnology
GENERAL India Achieves Breakthrough With Fully Decoded Pigeonpea Genome

In a major milestone for India’s agricultural biotechnology programme, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed the country’s first fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference genome of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan), a breakthrough expected to accelerate the development of high-yielding, climate-resilient and nutritionally superior pulse varieties. Pigeonpea, popularly known as tur or arhar, is one […]

CW Bureau · Aug 5, 2026
GENERAL CCMB Scientists Uncover Molecular Traps Used By Plants Against Viruses

Scientists at CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have uncovered a crucial plant defence mechanism that helps plants fight viral infections using liquid-like sticky protein droplets that trap and disable invading viruses. The breakthrough study, led by Dr Mandar V. Deshmukh and published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), provides a […]

CW Bureau · May 13, 2026