Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:22:22 +0100
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This is from Anup Karwa. I am a bio-entrepreneur and one of the founders of Krishidhan Seeds Group India, a three decade old plant breeding and agribiotech group of companies. I am also founder of KRFPL (Krishidhan Research Foundation Private Limited) which focuses on basic and applied plant biotechnology research. KRFPL was established with an aim to develop indigenous technologies and undertake technology business incubation. KRFPL is engaged in engineering durable insect & herbicide resistance and abiotic stress tolerance in key crops. Our vision is to incubate indigenous technologies and transform research leads into commercial products.
I would like share some of our efforts we have initiated in the last 8 years in India to develop indigenous GM technologies in key crops that are envisaged to be commercialized in next 5 years time frame.
1) We are developing proprietary marker free Bt eggplant and have deployed indigenous Bt gene(s). This technology is likely to be taken forward in regulatory studies and trials very soon and envisaged to be commercialized by 2014-15.
2) We have novel thermo-tolerant technology solution that can tackle high temperature stress (ranging from 50-60 Degree Celsius) and drought tolerance (DT) in key crops like maize, wheat, pearl millet and cotton.
3) We have indigenous herbicide resistance technology being engineered in maize and other crops likely to be commercialized as insect resistant (IR) and broad herbicide tolerant (HT) maize by 2016. Although, such traits would make the crop more durable and help stabilize yield under adverse changing climatic conditions.
4) A short recent press release on this technology and others can be read at http://www.KrishidhanSeeds.com/media.html
Our dominant aim has been to incubate innovation driven indigenous package of technology which will offer better cost effective solutions and choices to Indian and other developing world farmers.
Anup Karwa
Director Life Sciences
Krishidhan Seeds Group India
Krishidhan Bhawan
Additional MIDC
Jalna 431203
India.
E-mail: anupkarwa (at) KrishidhanSeeds.com
www.KrishidhanSeeds.com
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