Create designer crops with genetic technology to evolve newer varieties of essential oils:CIMAP Director

摘要

"It is now preferable,evidently feasible and rational to create designer plants yielding now minor monoterpenes as major monoterpenes with the help of the advanced tools of genomics and proteomics,combined with the science of genetics and techniques of plant breeding,to evolve newer varieties meeting industrial needs." This was the message given by Dr.S.P.S.Khanuja,Director,Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants(CIMAP),Lucknow in his keynote address on 'Mints and Beyond Mints:New Opportunities for Industry Through R&D.'