Tomato Genome Consortium, TGC, a group of over 300 scientists from fourteen countries including India, has sequenced the genomes of the domesticated tomato and its wild ancestor, Solanum pimpinellifolium.
Announcing this at a press conference in New Delhi today, Secretary in the Department of Biotechnology M K Bhan said, the genome sequencing is expected to lower costs and speed up efforts to improve the worldwide tomato production and make it better equipped to combat pests, pathogens, drought and diseases affecting the vegetable.
Speaking about a revelation made in a recent study by the department about using zinc in addition to standard antibiotics in treating new born children with bacterial infection, Mr Bhan said it will help in saving newborns provided its outcome is put into proper application. It can also reduce possibility of treatment failure of the children within seven days of birth or death within 21 day
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