Varanasi: Institute of Agricultural Sciences University of Hindu Banaras added another fur to the lid when the wheat variety, Malviya 838, developed by his scientists, was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with 34 other plant varieties through a virtual platform on Tuesday.
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The Bhu scientist, led by Prof.
VK Mishra, claimed that Malviya 838, also called Windu University Wheat (HUW) 838, variations were fully resistant to the ‘wheat explosion’ that had emerged as the main concern of Asian countries after migrating Bangladesh from Brazil in 2016 and began to submit threats of expansion in the Indian region.
PM dedicated 35 plant varieties with special traits to the nation through video conferencing on Tuesday on the occasion of the new virtual campus inauguration of the National Institute of Stress Biotic Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and the distribution of agricultural awards to the University of Agriculture.
Scientists, academics, students and even staff who did not teach celebrate the event at the Institute on Bhu Campus.
When contacted by Toi, Prof.
Mishra said, “We have started working to develop a variety of fortified wheat in 2014-15 by involving farmers and scientists from various departments.
Incidentally, one of the great wheat, known as a wheat explosion, press Bangladesh In 2016 and covered the maximum area.
It appears as a problem for India as well as adjacent Asian countries.
“Since this disease in the air, the threat to neighboring India is very high, said Prof.
Mishra.
He said it was a mushroom disease that was acting and destroying.
“One of the most frightening wheat diseases and felt in the past few decades, was distributed through infected seeds, plant residues and spores that could travel long distance in the air, pose a major threat to wheat production in the tropics.
It can shrink and destroy Grains in less than a week of the first symptom, leaving time to act for farmers.
Malviya 838 seed variety was sent to Bangladesh to cultivation and the results were shocking because it was proven to be very resistant to wheat explosion, said Prof.
Mishra added, varieties also have content Zinc and iron are higher with high yields than other popular.
Wheat varieties.
Varieties have proven potential even under limited irrigation conditions, said Prof.
Mishra.
The team consisting of Prof.
HK Jaiswal, Dr.
Sandeep Sharma from the Genetics Department and plant breeding, Prof.
Ramesh Kumar Singh Agronomy, Prof.
Ramesh Chand, Prof SS VAI SH from the Mycology and Plant Pathology of the Institute, led by Prof.
VK Mishra, has begun working to develop enriched BIO varieties.
They are happy because the varieties developed by them have been proven to be resistant to wheat explosions, which have emerged as the biggest threat to Asia, the largest wheat producing areas in the world after reaching Bangladesh from imported seeds in 2016.