India and UK researchers join hands to create new cereal crops that reduce GHG emissions
Q. Team of researchers from India and the UK have come together to develop new cereal crop varieties that use _____ lowering GHG emissions.- Published on 18 Jul 16a. nitrogen
b. carbon
c. oxygen
d. sulphur
ANSWER: nitrogen
Team of researchers from India and the UK have come together to develop new cereal crop varieties that use nitrogen effectively reducing GHG emissions and ensuring profitability and sustainability of agriculture.
- Partnership will go for natural variations of cereal and basic research in model plants to deliver new varieties of cereals with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency.
- With a funding of 10 million pounds through the Newton Bhabha Fund, UK, Biotechnology and Biological Research Council, UK and the Department of Biotechnology/DBT of the Government of India, four new virtual joint centres in agricultural nitrogen will be created.
- These are delivered in partnership with BBSRC, Natural Environment Research Council and the DBT.
- Centre comprises multiple research organisations in India and the UK with centres receiving co-investment of around 2.5 million pounds according to an official statement by ICRISAT.
- The Cambridge India Network for Translational Research in Nitrogen is one of 4 centres led by National Institute of Agricultural Botany in the UK and ICRISAT in India.
