{"id":7664,"date":"2020-04-25T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T10:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7664"},"modified":"2020-04-25T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T10:38:56","slug":"indian-initiative-on-earth-biogenome-sequencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/indian-initiative-on-earth-biogenome-sequencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Initiative on Earth BioGenome Sequencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/slf47s\/article31409525.ece\/ALTERNATES\/LANDSCAPE_1200\/23th-genome\" alt=\"JNTBGRI to play key role in sequencing of Indian species - The Hindu\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 The Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI) here is gearing up to play a key role in a nationwide project to decode the genetic information of all known species of plants and animals in the country.<\/p>\n<p><b>Key highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Institute has been selected as one of the Biological Knowledge and Resource Centres of the Indian Initiative on Earth BioGenome Sequencing (IIEBS). It will join hands with other premier research institutes to utilize cutting edge technologies for genome sequencing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Union Department of Biotechnology has allotted \u20b9143.89 lakh for JNTBGRI to take up the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The whole-genome sequencing of 1,000 species of plants and animals will be taken up in the initial phase of IIEBS to be completed over a period of five years at an estimated cost of \u20b9440 crores.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi is the coordinating center for the nationwide project involving a total of 24 institutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 With over 5,000 plant species in its field gene bank and conservatories, <strong>JNTBGRI has a major role in conserving the endemic flora of the Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/ngsppt-130729122525-phpapp01\/95\/ngs-ppt-9-638.jpg?cb=1375100894\" alt=\"Ngs ppt\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology Why in news? \u2022 The Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI) here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7665,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions\/7665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}