Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha considered the Nuclear Program in India. Dr Bhabha built up the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) for completing atomic science look into in 1945. To heighten the push to misuse atomic vitality for the advantage of the country, Dr Bhabha built up the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) in January 1954 for multidisciplinary look into program fundamental for the aggressive atomic program of India. After the pitiful destruction of Bhabha in 1966, AEET was renamed Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC).

Dr. Bhabha built up the BARC Training School to take into account the labor needs of the growing nuclear vitality innovative work program. In Bhabha's own words "When Nuclear Energy has been effectively connected for control generation in, say two or three decades from now, India won't need to search abroad for its specialists yet will discover them prepared close by". Dr Bhabha stressed on confidence in every one of the fields of atomic science and engineering.

Bio Science Group

(Associate Director - A)
Nuclear Agriculture & Bio-Technology Division
Food Technology Division

(Associate Director - B)
Bio-Organic Division
Radiation Biology & Health Sciences Division
Molecular Biology Division

Nuclear Agriculture

BARC grows high yielding seed assortments by instigating changes utilizing Gamma radiation. Gamma radiation just quickens the changes which generally happens normally finished an any longer timeframes. So far BARC discharged 42 seed assortments for business abuse. Changes can be such that the products develop ahead of schedule, to withstand biotic and abiotic focuses and to acquire better nutritious quality.

Journal Title:

The Crop Journal

ISSN: 2095-5421 (Print); 2214-5141 (Online)

Publisher: Elsevier

Society/Institution: Crop Science Society of China

LCC Subject Category: Agriculture

Country of publisher: Netherlands

Language of fulltext: English

Full-text formats available: PDF, HTML



Authors

Ashok Badigannavar (Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai 400085, India)

G. Girish (Agricultural Research Station, Aland Road, Gulbarga 585101, Karnataka, India)

T.R. Ganapathi (Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai 400085, India)

Address:

Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division,
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC),
Mumbai 400085,
India