{"id":173167,"date":"2025-06-12T13:44:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=173167"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:14:48","slug":"india-unveils-first-genome-edited-rice-varieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-unveils-first-genome-edited-rice-varieties\/","title":{"rendered":"India Unveils First Genome-Edited Rice Varieties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India has taken a global lead by launching two genome-edited rice varieties\u2014DRR Rice 100 and Pusa DST Rice 1\u2014developed by ICAR using CRISPR-Cas technology.<br>These innovations aim to boost agricultural yield by up to 30%, reduce environmental impact by cutting greenhouse emissions by 20%, and conserve critical water resources.<br>This step not only supports sustainable agriculture but also strengthens India\u2019s position as a future global food supplier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Announcements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Union Agriculture Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced two genome-edited rice varieties,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DRR Rice 100 (Kamla)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pusa DST Rice 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Event held at Bharat Ratna C. Subramaniam Auditorium, NASC Complex, New Delhi.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minister honored ICAR scientists behind the breakthrough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aim and Significance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To increase rice yield, reduce water usage, and enhance stress tolerance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supports India\u2019s ambition of being the food basket of the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contributes to the Second Green Revolution and climate-smart agriculture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has taken a global lead by launching two genome-edited rice varieties\u2014DRR Rice 100 and Pusa DST Rice 1\u2014developed by ICAR using CRISPR-Cas technology.These innovations aim to boost agricultural yield by up to 30%, reduce environmental impact by cutting greenhouse emissions by 20%, and conserve critical water resources.This step not only supports sustainable agriculture but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":173168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5372],"tags":[68],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-173167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2025","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173169,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173167\/revisions\/173169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173167"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=173167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}