Month: April 2019

Version of CRISPR/Cas3 more impactful gene-editing tool

  • April 24, 2019
Investigators at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) delineate that Cas3 from Thermobifida fusca was found to be guided specifically towards Cascade-bound target DNA in the presence of an optimal Protospacer Adjacent Motif (PAM) sequence, and through physical interplay with the CasA component of the Cascade and the non-complementary strand of the ds-DNA substrate. This means […]
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93 new cotton varieties to undergo national trials

  • April 19, 2019
93 new cotton varieties, including 85 Bt and eight (8) non-Bt varieties, would undergo national coordinated varietal trials (NCVT) all over Pakistan to assess their fabrication potentiality and fiber qualities. These varieties or germplasms included 41 evolve by the public sector and 44 by the private sector and all would be cultivated in four provinces […]
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Premium quality exotic date palm varieties distributes among former of Pakistan

  • April 17, 2019
Pakistan government has take initiative to introduce of introducing tissue culture date palm verities to Pakistan farmer. The act will help you to yield maximum dates for strengthening of Pakistan economy and export oriented date industries. The plants are import from UK and UAE and Apprises of date varieties Ajwa, Anbarah, Khalas, Barhi, Medjael and […]
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VEC on maize, sorghum, fodder proposes 9 new varieties for cultivation

  • April 8, 2019
Nine (09) Maize hybrids; four (04) Maize OPVs, 01 Millet variety (fodder), 01 millet hybrid (grain), 02 Oat verities and 01 sorghum sudan grass hybrid have been approved for commercial cultivation in Pakistan by the Variety Evaluation Committee (VEC) on Maize, Sorghum, Millet, Fodder and other cereals in a meeting held at Pakistan Agricultural Research […]
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