Biotechnology is a new area of science will probably bring better
and healthier world at lower cost. India has a strong traditional area of
plants animals and ancient medicine. With biotechnological advances it could be
one of the first countries to solve several problems faced in medicine,
agriculture and industry.
We have made several achievements in the field of biotechnology,
they are as follows:
1.
India’s first biotechnology product- a pregnancy
kit- has entered US market.
2.
The country’s first antifertility vaccine is
undergone trials in India and abroad.
3.
In few years Indian scientists have propagated a
large number of plants such as eucalyptus, bamboo, coconut, tobacco, gladiolus sandal
wood and citrus plant through tissue culture.
4.
Indian doctors and researchers have found laser
application a boon in medical field. Laser is used in welding detached retina,
vapourize and destroy malignant brain tumours of cancer patients.
5.
Indian biotech gaints have developed life saving
drugs-stains, which prevents heart attacks by lowering the blood cholesterol level
and first recombinant vaccine for hepatitis-B called Shanvac. Similarly anti cancer drug have been developed, made and
marketed by Indian companies.
6.
The first biotechnological crop introduced
in India was Bt Cotton on 26th
may 2002. It is insecticidal crop made by transferring a gene from naturally occurring
soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis that
encodes an insecticidal protein, cry
protein or called Bt toxin. It has
been very effective in corn and cotton.
Bt cotton
CRY PROTEIN
7.
Similarly GM (genetically modified) mustard is
incorporated with bacterial gene to increase fertility and to protect it from
pests. A gene from a weed (Arabidopsis thaliana) is being introduced into Indian
mustard to make the crop consume less water. This GM mustard crop will cut down
irrigation by half. It is promising country like India since it is second in
world’s mustard crop production after china.
8.
India is all set of release GM pigeon pea
and chicken pea pulses for which it holds a share of 90% and 73% of world’s
production respectively. The menace of dangerous borer (Haliverpa armgera) made
India imperative to cultivate GM crops.
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