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    Indian Prime Minister Modi personally released the country's first non-GMO herbicide-tolerant rice variety

    • Last Update: 2021-10-19
    • Source: Internet
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    World Agrochemical Network Chinese website reported: The Indian Institute of Agriculture (IARI) has developed the country’s first non-GMO herbicide - tolerant rice variety.
    Compared with traditional transplanting, this rice variety can be sown directly, which significantly saves water and water resources.
    Labor force
    .
     
    Pusa Basmati 1979 and Pusa Basmati 1985 rice varieties contain a mutated acetolactate synthase (ALS) gene, which allows farmers to spray the broad-spectrum herbicide imazethapyr to control weeds
    .
    In this way, there is no need to prepare a nursery.
    The rice seeds are cultivated into seedlings, and then they are uprooted and replanted in the main field after 25-35 days
    .
    These two new varieties were officially released by Indian Prime Minister Modi in September
    .
     
    Rice transplanting is laborious and water consuming
    .
    For the first three weeks after transplantation, the plants should be irrigated almost daily to maintain a water depth of 4-5 cm
    .
    Even when the crop is in the tillering (stem development) stage for the next four to five weeks, farmers will continue to water every two to three days
    .
     
    "Water is a natural herbicide that can treat weeds during the early growth period of rice crops
    .
    The new varieties only need to replace part of the water with imazethapyr, without seedling raising, tilling, transplanting and irrigation
    .
    You can sow rice directly , Just like wheat," said AK Singh, Director of IARI
    .
     
    Imazethapyr is effective against a series of broadleaf weeds, gramineous weeds and sedge weeds, and cannot be used in ordinary rice fields because the chemical cannot distinguish between crops and invasive plants
    .
    The ALS gene in rice encodes an enzyme (protein) that can synthesize amino acids needed for crop growth and development
    .
    Herbicides sprayed on ordinary rice will bind to ALS enzymes and inhibit their production of amino acids
    .
     
    The new Basmati variety contains an ALS gene whose DNA sequence has been altered using ethyl methanesulfonate (a chemical mutant)
    .
    Therefore, the ALS enzyme no longer has a binding site for imidazolium, and amino acid synthesis will not be inhibited
    .
    Rice can now tolerate imazethapyr herbicide and will only kill weeds when applied
    .
     
    Singh pointed out that this is herbicide tolerance achieved through mutation breeding, not genetic modification
    .
    There are no foreign genes here
    .

     
    Both Pusa Basmati 1979 and 1985 were bred by crossing existing popular varieties (Pusa 1121 and Pusa 1509, respectively) with "Robin"
    .
    The latter is a mutant line derived from the dryland drought-tolerant rice variety Nagina 22
    .
    S Robin, a rice breeder from the Agricultural University of Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, has identified the mutant's imazethapyr tolerance
    .
     
      Farmers in Punjab and Haryana have begun to use direct seeding of rice (DSR) to cope with labor shortages and depletion of groundwater tables
    .
    This year alone, the total area of ​​rice fields in these two states is 4.
    43 million hectares, of which about 600,000 hectares are DSR
    .

     
      DSR planting is currently based on two herbicides, pendimethalin (applied within 72 hours after sowing) and bispyribac (18-20 days later)
    .
    As Singh pointed out, "These are more expensive than Imazethapyr (1,500 rupees vs.
    300 rupees/acre)
    .
    In addition, Imazethapyr has a wider range of weed control and is safer because ALS does not exist in humans and mammals.
    Gene
    .
    Even in herbicide-tolerant rice, this chemical is only effective against weeds
    .
    "
     
      Rice transplanting usually requires about 30 irrigations.
    Compared with rice transplanting, it is estimated that DSR requires 30% less water, saving 3,000 rupees per acre in transplanting labor costs, and because there is no need to prepare a nursery, it also saves 10- Time cost of 15 days
    .
    However, the success of DSR depends on effective herbicide solutions, such as breeding imazethapyr-tolerant varieties
    .


    Non-genetically modified herbicide rice water resources
     
      Pusa Basmati 1979 and Pusa Basmati 1985 rice varieties contain a mutated acetolactate synthase (ALS) gene, which allows farmers to spray the broad-spectrum herbicide imazethapyr to control weeds
    .
    In this way, there is no need to prepare a nursery.
    The rice seeds are cultivated into seedlings, and then they are uprooted and replanted in the main field after 25-35 days
    .
    These two new varieties were officially released by Indian Prime Minister Modi in September
    .
     
      Rice transplanting is laborious and water consuming
    .
    For the first three weeks after transplantation, the plants should be irrigated almost daily to maintain a water depth of 4-5 cm
    .
    Even when the crop is in the tillering (stem development) stage for the next four to five weeks, farmers will continue to water every two to three days
    .
     
      "Water is a natural herbicide that can treat weeds during the early growth period of rice crops
    .
    The new varieties only need to replace part of the water with imazethapyr, without seedling raising, tilling, transplanting and irrigation
    .
    You can sow rice directly , Just like wheat," said AK Singh, Director of IARI
    .
     
      Imazethapyr is effective against a series of broadleaf weeds, gramineous weeds and sedge weeds, and cannot be used in ordinary rice fields because the chemical cannot distinguish between crops and invasive plants
    .
    The ALS gene in rice encodes an enzyme (protein) that can synthesize amino acids needed for crop growth and development
    .
    Herbicides sprayed on ordinary rice will bind to ALS enzymes and inhibit their production of amino acids
    .
     
      The new Basmati variety contains an ALS gene whose DNA sequence has been altered using ethyl methanesulfonate (a chemical mutant)
    .
    Therefore, the ALS enzyme no longer has a binding site for imidazolium, and amino acid synthesis will not be inhibited
    .
    Rice can now tolerate imazethapyr herbicide and will only kill weeds when applied
    .
     
      Singh pointed out that this is herbicide tolerance achieved through mutation breeding, not genetic modification
    .
    There are no foreign genes here
    .

     
      Both Pusa Basmati 1979 and 1985 were bred by crossing existing popular varieties (Pusa 1121 and Pusa 1509, respectively) with "Robin"
    .
    The latter is a mutant line derived from the dryland drought-tolerant rice variety Nagina 22
    .
    S Robin, a rice breeder from the Agricultural University of Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, has identified the mutant's imazethapyr tolerance
    .
     
      Farmers in Punjab and Haryana have begun to use direct seeding of rice (DSR) to cope with labor shortages and depletion of groundwater tables
    .
    This year alone, the total area of ​​rice fields in these two states is 4.
    43 million hectares, of which about 600,000 hectares are DSR
    .

     
      DSR planting is currently based on two herbicides, pendimethalin (applied within 72 hours after sowing) and bispyribac (18-20 days later)
    .
    As Singh pointed out, "These are more expensive than Imazethapyr (1,500 rupees vs.
    300 rupees/acre)
    .
    In addition, Imazethapyr has a wider range of weed control and is safer because ALS does not exist in humans and mammals.
    Gene
    .
    Even in herbicide-tolerant rice, this chemical is only effective against weeds
    .
    "
     
      Rice transplanting usually requires about 30 irrigations.
    Compared with rice transplanting, it is estimated that DSR requires 30% less water, saving 3,000 rupees per acre in transplanting labor costs, and because there is no need to prepare a nursery, it also saves 10- Time cost of 15 days
    .
    However, the success of DSR depends on effective herbicide solutions, such as breeding imazethapyr-tolerant varieties
    .

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