The city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) have bagged the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) award for innovations in rural development.
Disclosing this at a press conference here on Tuesday, CCMB Director Ch. Mohan Rao said the award was given for the contribution of the two institutes towards innovation of the improved Samba Mahsuri variant of rice, with resistance to bacterial blight and promotion of its cultivation.
In addition, Rakesh Mishra, Senior Principal Scientist at CCMB, has been elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) for his contributions in science and epigenetics.
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