TNPSC Thervupettagam

JNTBGRI

May 1 , 2020 1542 days 922 0
  • The Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI) has been selected as one of the Biological Knowledge and Resource Centers of the Indian Initiative on Earth Bio Genome Sequencing (IIEBS).
  • The project is planning for a nationwide project to decode the genetic information of all known species of plants and animals in the country.
  • The National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi is the coordinating center for the nationwide project involving a total of 24 institutes.
  • The project is part of the Earth Bio Genome Project, an international initiative which aims to sequence the genetic codes of all of earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of 10 years.
  • Genome sequencing is ostensibly the process of determining the complete DNA sequence of an organism's genome at a single time.

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