Genome study on teas at advanced stage

Why is it in news?
  • A genome study project initiated by the Tea Board of India, to establish the origins and speciality of Indian teas, has now reached an advanced stage.
  • The study is being conducted on Assam teas to establish it as a product of India.
Partner institutes
  • There are six partner institutes in this project.
  • The list includes:
    1.   The New Delhi-based National Tea Research Foundation and ICAR-National Research Centre for Plant Bio Technology,
  • CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bio Resource Technology Palampur Himachal Pradesh,
    1. Tea Research Institute, Jorhat (under TRA),
    1. UPASI, Coimbatore, and
    2. Darjeeling Tea Development Centrein Kurseong, Darjeeling.

  • The study, which will establish Camelia assamica as an indigenous Indian variety, comes amid reports of a neighbouring country’s efforts to establish Darjeeling tea as a variety that is their own.
  • The Commerce Ministry official said that the multi-institutional project on genome sequencing is extremely important for establishing the whole genetic make-up of India tea germplasm, in addition to molecular methods like DNA fingerprinting and DNA barcoding.
Source
The Hindu




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 19th Nov 2018
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