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First Genome-Edited Rice Varieties
May 8 , 2025
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- Indian scientists have made a history by producing two new climate-smart rice varieties using a 21st Century breeding technology called "genome editing".
- These improved rice varieties named as 'DRR Dhan 100 (Kamala)' and 'Pusa DST Rice 1'.
- These varieties are considered climate-smart and climate resilient.
- The greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 20 per cent (32,000 tons).
- With this, India became the first country in the world to develop Genome-Edited or GE rice varieties.
- The two new varieties incorporate no foreign DNA, so they are not genetically modified (GM).
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