Crop Domestication Transformation from Wild Species to Crop Plants One of the landmarks of human development is the transition from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to settled agriculture-based societies, the so-called Neolithic Revolution. A key component of this transition was the domestication of wild plant species into cultivated crops capable of supporting higher population densities (Harlan, 1992). […]
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Gamma irradiation The garden in which crop plants are irradiated with gamma rays for mutation breeding, is called gamma garden. In India, the first gamma garden was established in 1959 at the Bose Research Institute, Kolkata and the second one was established at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, in 1960. Several improved crop
Ginkgo biloba This remarkable order of great antiquity is represented in the present age by a sole survivor ginkgo biloba, which by many paleobotanists is regarded as a “living fossil”. It occurred as far back as Triassic period of the Mesozoic age (about 200,000,000 years ago). The order as a whole consists of 16 genera
Curriculum The term curriculum is derived from the Latin Word ‘Currer’ which means run, and it signifies a runway or ‘a course which one runs to reach a goal”. In education, it is generally identified with a course of study, or subjects prescribed for a course. In fact subjects form only a part of curriculum
