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CCMB bags award for rural devt
CCMB Bags Award For Rural Development. The Centre for Cellular and Molecular biology (CCMB), Hyderabad and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) have jointly bagged Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Award for Science & Technology innovations for rural development-2013.
The institute wins CSIR Award for improved Samba Mahsuri
Hyderabad: The Centre for Cellular and Molecular biology (CCMB), Hyderabad and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) have jointly bagged Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Award for Science & Technology innovations for rural development-2013.
Giving details to media about the award at CCMB here on Tuesday, CCMB director Ch Mohan Rao, said, “CCMB and DDR have developed improved Samba Mahsuri rice which is completely resistant to bacterial blight.”
“Recognising efforts put by the CCMB and DRR for developing bacterial blight resistant rice and taking seed to the rural level, CSIR has jointly announced the award. The award will be presented by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon. The award carries a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh, a citation and shield.
Rao said that if rice crop was affected with the bacterial blight, about 40 per cent of the yield would be at lost.
“No chemicals, sprays are available in the market today to prevent and save the field if affected with bacterial blight. Today 80,000 acres in the country is being cultivated with improvised Samba Mashsuri,” Mohan said. The CCMB director also informed that Rakesh Mishra, senior principal scientist at CCMB has been elected for Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) for his contributions in sciences.
Low birth weight leads to diabetes: Study
Scientists at the CCMB found that children with low birth weight are prone to the diabetes. Explaining about the finding of their study, senior principal scientist, CCMB, Giriraj R Chandak said that genes which increase the hemosistene level in the mother during pregnancy, leads to low birth weight and is associated with diabetes in the future. “Mothers with lowest Vitamin B12 and highest folate levels were most resistant to insulin and mothers with vitamin low B12 and high folate levels which lead to high hemosistene level produce children with more obese and insulin resistant. About 40-45 per cent of infants born in India are under weight. Mothers’ nutrition during pregnancy is a key for a child’s health,” Chandak said. He informed that finding of the study were the results of 20 years of research and had implications.
Mohan Rao said that India has become capital for low birth weight apart from being capital of diabetes. “Insufficient levels of vitamin B12 in the pregnant mother will cause trouble for new born. Woman should be given plenty of B12 along with folic acid during pregnancy,” Rao said.
