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A visit to NAGRC,Gene Bank |
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by Anjila Pandey | 26-03-2020 22:47
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I am about to share our educational and observational visit to Gene Bank, which was on 12th Bhadra, 2076. It's called as National Agriculture Genetic Resource Centre (NAGRC), simply known as Gene Bank. So, lets check it out. The visit was an interesting and effective practical source of information on biotechnology, biodiversity and its preservation, along with its importance and relevance on public health. To be more specific, the visit was planned for the public health students to identify variety of methods of preserving gene and genetic resources with its essentiality, acquire information on genetic technologies and their risk assessment, explore the biodiversity richness accounting their medicinal importance, various biotechnological methods developed for easier livelihood of people, disaster management, relationship of biodiversity, climate change and public health and many more. National Agriculture Genetic Resource Centre (NAGRC), known as Gene bank was established in 2010 AD (2066 BS) under the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) in Khumaltar premise. This is a national level office, with different branches thoroughout the country. NAGRC has been doing collection, identification, characterization, and regeneration of Agriculturally Produced Genetic Resources (APGRs) since its establishment. It emphasizes on agricultural genetic resources for food and nutritional security, livelihood enhancement, and economic growth of Nepal. There are more than 11,000 collections of APGRs in the Gene bank. These accessions include cereals, pseudo cereals, pulses, oilseeds and vegetable of orthodox seed whereas crops having recalcitrant seed are conserved in the field gene bank, on-farm gene bank and tissue bank as a whole. The APGRs have been collected, cleaned, processed, preserved and regenerated and characterized according to the standard procedures and norms used by scientists across the world. The methods of preservation comprised of short term, middle term and long term preservation as per the characteristics and requirement of products to be preserved. Around 7800 seeds are being preserved for long term and around 3-4 thousand seeds are being processed. There is a facility for tissue culture and tissue bank with a capacity of 50,000 preserving samples of recalcitrant seed under in-vitro cultural lab and tissue bank. In molecular research lab, facility for DNA works such as genotyping, genetic diversity assessing, and identification (DNA fingerprinting, marker assisted selection), gene mapping and tagging are available. Gene bank comprises experimental plot as well. This includes experimental fields for diversity blocks used for regeneration, multiplication, characterization, and evaluation of agricultural seeds, plants and similar. Also, one of the special facilities in Gene Bank is Field Gene bank. In this system, government’s farm in area around the road and office buildings, community farms, botanical garden, culturally protected heritage sites are considered suitable locations. This is essential for those crop species which are having recalcitrant seed types and vegetative propagation along with apomictic crop species, meant for their conservation, characterization, evaluation and utilization. Therefore, Gene Bank not only preserves resources in a closed room but explores, experiments and promotes conservation of variety of agricultural products in an open field. Gene Bank holds peculiar importance in environmental health and public health. Different agricultural species contain different nutrition required for the body and such species are preserved in the gene bank. Here it is possible to create foods with greater amount of minerals, vitamins and antioxidants. Thus, it assists to maintain dietary diversity resulting reduction in the risk of malnutrition and other nutrition deficiency disorders in public. It focuses on innovations for improving agricultural and health status of people through application of biotechnology in agriculture (production of transgenic and improved hybrid products, crops with better storing capacity and delayed rotting process, nutritional integration and richness also improving the quality, taste, color and texture of food). For instance, different pest resistant species are stored in gene bank, which if crossed with seeds of low resistant but highly productive crops gives highly productive and pest resistant crops. The conservation of biodiversity also promotes ecosystem balance in many ways. I suggest everyone to give it a visit,for gaining adequate knowledge on the abundance of genetic resources in our country-a valuable asset for sure. |
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23 Comments
thank you
Posted 18-08-2020 18:16
Hello Jasmine,
I hope you are going great. I highly appreciate your positive feedback.
GREEN CHEERS!
Regards,
Anjila
Posted 30-03-2020 14:00
Hello Susmita,
I am glad that you read the report. Thankyou for the feedback.
GREEN CHEERS!
Love,
Anjila
Posted 30-03-2020 13:57
Greetings
I do hope everything is going well..
Thank you so much for sharing your report !!
Felt great to go through it and seems your visit was awesome and informative..
Hope to learn more from you on upcoming days..
Green cheers
Regards
Jasmine karki
Posted 30-03-2020 02:07
Hello
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report
Green cheers
Warm regards
Susmita
Posted 29-03-2020 01:20
Thankyou for the feedback,Anima. GREEN CHEERS!
Posted 28-03-2020 14:14
Thanks for your report.
Keep Writing
Posted 28-03-2020 12:19
Thankyou for the feedback, Ramesh!
Posted 27-03-2020 21:48
It was a great visit indeed, Rachu. Thankyou!
Posted 27-03-2020 21:47
I appreciate the feedback, Susmita! Thankyou!
Posted 27-03-2020 21:46
Yes it was an interesting one,Soyam. Thankyou!
Posted 27-03-2020 21:45
Hello Sandhya,
Thankyou very much for your positive feedback and the encouragement to write more.
I hope you too are doing great!
GREEN CHEERS!
Warm regards,
Anjila Pandey
Posted 27-03-2020 21:44
Thanks for your report.
Posted 27-03-2020 12:00
Hope you had an wonderful learning experiencing visiting there
Posted 27-03-2020 10:16
Hello anjila
I hope you are doing well
Nice and detailed report
Thank you so much for this report!
Keep writing
Green cheers
Regards
susmita
Posted 27-03-2020 04:41
It seems we had yours days enjoyed.
Keep enjoying,
Yours,
Soyam
Posted 27-03-2020 00:50
Hello Anjila,
I hope you are fine there and doing great with your works,
Your visit to gene bank really seems to be interesting and well spent day full of new knowledge,
This is a huge place of preservation of such an endangered species of plants,
Keep writing!!
Thanks for your well written experience!!
Yours,
Sandhya
Posted 26-03-2020 23:25
I appreciate your words, Sonika. Thanks a lot.
GREEN CHEERS!
Posted 26-03-2020 23:09
Hello Anjila!
I enjoyed reading your report !!
Informative one!!
Wish to visit NAGRC soon.
Keep on writing !!
GREEN CHEERS!!
Yours,
Sonika
Posted 26-03-2020 23:06
Hello Sameer Singh,
I hope you are doing good. Thankyou for the read.
GREEN CHEERS!
Regards,
Anjila Pandey
Posted 26-03-2020 23:01
Hello Rijana,
I hope you are doing well. Thankyou for the read.
GREEN CHEERS!
Warm regards,
Anjila
Posted 26-03-2020 22:59
Thanks for the information.
Sure, i will visit the gene bank.
Posted 26-03-2020 22:58
Thanks for your report.
Posted 26-03-2020 22:53