{"title":"Breed Registration and the Gazette Notification: A Unique National Framework for Protecting Native Animal Germplasm","authors":"S. Niranjan, R. Pundir, B. Mishra","doi":"10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00082.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00082.1","url":null,"abstract":"The FAO’s Global Plan of Action for AnGR (Interlaken Declaration), 2007 is global framework for the protection of Animal Genetic Resources (AnGR) diversity, which laid down four strategic priority areas including characterization, inventory of native AnGR for adoption by all countries. India possesses a wide range of AnGR diversity, distributed over diverse geographical and ecological regions, and bears the proactive responsibility to document its own native AnGR on priority. Registration of animal breeds is a step towards inventorizing and documenting precious resources at national level. In India, registration has been initiated by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in the year 2008. Further to provide statutory recognition to the breeds, the registered breeds are the Gazette notified by the Govt. of India. At present, the number of registered and notified breeds has reached 202 belonging to 13 farm animal species in the country. Registration of animal breeds has shown a greater impact on socio-economic arena, including initiation of breed-based livestock census to formulating breeding policies and development programs for registered breeds in the country. The national framework for registration of native AnGR is unique in the world and may be a model to other countries, specifically African and South Asian countries for claiming sovereignty over and protecting their own native germplasm.","PeriodicalId":13295,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88269570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. S. Kumar, Ravindra Kumar, B. Kushwaha, R. Singh, V. Mohindra
{"title":"Genomic Research in Fishery Sector: Current Status and Future Prospects","authors":"M. S. Kumar, Ravindra Kumar, B. Kushwaha, R. Singh, V. Mohindra","doi":"10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00088.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00088.2","url":null,"abstract":"Large scale efforts on genomics has resulted in greater understanding of the genomic architecture, their evolution and underlying biological mechanisms in fish. Although, significant achievements in fish genome sequencing initiatives have been undertaken globally, further targeted efforts are needed to realize its full potential. It is expected that the knowledge of structure and function of genomes and their interactions with non-genetic components of production systems will help to improve productivity, as well as in conservation and sustainable management of fisheries. In this direction, integrative multi-omics data intensive projects may be carried out in consortium mode research by pooling the expertise from different domains. These efforts will pave way for efficient resource use, to reduce production cost and increase farmers’ income.","PeriodicalId":13295,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88095925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Valorization of Indigenous Livestock and Poultry – An Approach towards their Conservation","authors":"Rekha Sharma, R. Arora, S. Ahlawat","doi":"10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00078.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00078.x","url":null,"abstract":"Indigenous livestock species have co-existed with humans as important contributors to food, income, socio-economic and cultural status for centuries. The livestock scenario in present times has changed from a resource-driven activity based on local conditions and environments to one driven by demand. Consequently, specialized traits of low-producing indigenous livestock breeds are ignored in emerging, high-input-based farming systems. This has led to a progressive replacement of traditional multipurpose breeds with high-yielding ones and more profit-oriented farming. Since indigenous livestock cannot compete in production with industrial livestock systems; it is reasonable to focus on their unique qualitative aspects as a means of conservation and source of livelihood. Fortunately, many local breeds and species have a large but often unrecognized potential to produce items that customers appreciate and demand. Many local breeds are bestowed with unique qualities like colored wool, disease resistance, patterned hides, super-fine fiber, especially palatable meat, or milk with therapeutic or health benefits. Local breeds can produce unique products that can generate significant levels of demand and can help rescue a threatened breed from further decline or extinction.","PeriodicalId":13295,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88297210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Kataria, A. Gurao, Ravinder Singh, S. Niranjan, B. Mishra
{"title":"Genetic Uniqueness for Immune Response Traits in Native Animal Genetic Resources","authors":"R. Kataria, A. Gurao, Ravinder Singh, S. Niranjan, B. Mishra","doi":"10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00080.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00080.8","url":null,"abstract":"Breeding of animals for disease resistance is an important intervention in the era of emerging and re-emerging pathogens in livestock and poultry. Livestock and poultry species of India are considered as an important genetic resource for climate resilience as well as relative less susceptibility to tropical diseases. Indian livestock populations with a broad genetic base, due to availability of diverse breeds and populations, have advantage over the exotic counterpart. Introduction of cross breeding in India, cattle in particular, with exotic germplasm, has further helped in identification of several genes and pathways involved in gaining better immunity against the prevalent diseases. Unique alleles have been identified in the major histocompatibility region and other immune response genes, including toll-like receptors, having important role in disease resistance. Major impediment in associating genetic polymorphism with the disease resistance however, is the non-availability of standardized phenotypic data. Though attention is being diverted towards understanding the genetic basis of disease resistance in native livestock and poultry, there is a need to utilize the latest genome based technologies for fully understanding as well as exploiting the genetic potential of indigenous breeds.","PeriodicalId":13295,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72585365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plant Genetic Resources for Crop Improvement: The North-Western Himalayan Perspective","authors":"S. Sharma, Nikhil Malhotra, Mohar Singh","doi":"10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00059.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00059.6","url":null,"abstract":"is one of the unique eco-systems, rich in robust indigenous culture and traditional wisdom. Due to its varied climatic conditions, it is gifted with a wide diversity of plant genetic resources (PGRs) of several crop species and their wild relatives. These crops and their wild taxa have contributed significantly to environment and food security of the native people. Recent past has seen some breakthroughs in successful utilization of Himalayan PGRs in cultivar development that could serve as model for future crop improvement programs vis-à-vis climate change and nutritional security.","PeriodicalId":13295,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82038049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large-scale Characterization for Management and Utilization of Indian National Genebank Collections","authors":"Ashok Kumar, Kuldeep Tripathi, J. Kumari","doi":"10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00058.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00058.4","url":null,"abstract":"plant genetic are the key biological resources having great potential to meet the challenges of food and nutritional security. ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) has been working with a network of 10 regional stations located in different agro-climatic zones of India for the management of genetic resources. The linkages established with CGIAR centres, national crop-based institutes and state agricultural universities are the backbones of PGR utilization. NBPGR characterizes and evaluates germplasm conserved in the Indian national genebank for different traits and provides material to breeders. The effective utilization of PGR in crop improvement programmes depends mainly on their systematic characterization and evaluation, and identification of potentially useful germplasm. To date, we have characterized more than 2.35 lakh accessions of different agri-horticultural crops and developed core collections for the effective management of a large number of accessions. Presently, our focus is on the large-scale characterization of entire germplasm conserved in the Indian National Genebank and detailed evaluation of prioritized crops; identification of reference sets and core sets for enhanced utilization.","PeriodicalId":13295,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89881714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity of Scarab Fauna (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) – Importance and Implications","authors":"Sreedevi Kolla, Judith Corolyn, M. Nagesh","doi":"10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00106.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00106.1","url":null,"abstract":"Scarab fauna include most economically important dung rollers and white grubs, which are diverse and speciose. These belong to the family Scarabaeidae of Coleoptera. The dung beetles or dung rollers being beneficial play an important role in cleaning the debris/faeces and thus improve the soil structure and fertility through nutrient recycling. On the other hand white grubs are destructive and herbivores causing damage to the plants of several commercial agricultural and horticultural crops affecting the yields. Understanding the species diversity of the dung rollers and white grubs aids in conservation of the former group and management of the latter for the benefit of all lives on this earth. The chapter focuses on the classification, diversity and its importance of both the groups.","PeriodicalId":13295,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86858993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boosting Widespread Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture – New Metrics and the Role of Science","authors":"N. Carmona, Sunayana Sharma, J. Rana, K. Lal","doi":"10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00093.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00093.6","url":null,"abstract":"Adapting to new climatic, social, and environmental realities demands deep and massive transformative changes in how humans manage, perceive, and relate with terrestrial and aquatic productive systems. In India, agriculture production is challenged by degraded soils, scarce and contested water, fragmented and degraded seminatural habitats, social conflict, and more frequent extreme events. Existing political will is enabling the adoption of sustainable agriculture. However, the pace and the extent of the adoption of promising strategies, practices, and approaches for achieving sustainable and resilient agriculture remains sparse. Accelerating a socially just transformation to sustainability in India requires a new systems-oriented, multidisciplinary, human well-being-centered research agenda. Specifically, the new agenda can expand, contest and reevaluate agriculture performance’ in terms of how is evaluated and measured at the farm and landscape level. The new evidence will be critical for learning, innovating and re-designing sustainable, multifunctional and resilient agricultural landscapes.","PeriodicalId":13295,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87449102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Networks and Partnerships are Tools for Efficient PGR Management","authors":"R. Tyagi","doi":"10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00042.0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00042.0","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture is facing unprecedented challenges from a rapidly expanding human population and an unstable and changing cultivation environment. With the global system facing a multitude of crises across the social, health, environmental, and peace and security spectrum, there is an urgent need for scaling up international, regional cooperation and partnerships to fi nd lasting solutions to ensure food and nutritional security. Plant genetic resources (PGRs) can be used for breeding improved crop varieties, providing food and nutrition for ever-increasing population of animals and human beings. An attempt is made briefl y to discuss about the importance of network and partnership and key role, feature and challenges for sustaining the network and partnership on long-term basis for management of PGRs.","PeriodicalId":13295,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86068562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genomic Resource Generation in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants","authors":"Rakesh Singh, Ramesh Kumar","doi":"10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00070.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0976-1926.2022.00070.5","url":null,"abstract":"Plant genomic resources are genetic material of actual or potential value which can be utilized for the improvement of specific traits in Agri-horticultural crops. The generation of genomic resource in medicinal plants is important because they contain bioactive compounds or secondary metabolites important for human health. The demand for these compounds is increasing due to their application in herbal medicine. The recent “omics” techniques have made generation of genomic resources much efficient and cost effective. The improvement in sequencing technology from 2 nd generation (NGS) to 3 rd generation has reduced sequencing cost and thus brought many more crop genomes within range of analysis. The Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) based whole genome and transcriptome sequencing in medicinal and aromatic plant has played a vital role in generating genomic resources for effective conservation, crop improvement and better understanding about secondary metabolite biosynthesis in medicinal and aromatic plants. In present review, the progress of generating genomic resources such SSR resources, EST-SSR resources, transcription factors, transcriptome analysis, and whole genome sequence analysis in selected medicinal and aromatic plants has been updated, which may be further utilize in medicinal and aromatic plant improvement programs.","PeriodicalId":13295,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84838950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}