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February 11, 2021 09:02 IST
He visited more than 100 villages in the last 12 years to source them which he has planted at his premises
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He visited more than 100 villages in the last 12 years to source them which he has planted at his premises
Age is no barrier for 84-year-old Beluru Subbanna Heggade (B. V. Subbarao) who has has collected more than 100
appe midi varieties of mangoes which were on the verge of extinction. He has preserved these mangoes, used for pickling as whole fruit, by growing them on his premises in Belur of Sagar taluk in Shivamogga district.
He has travelled every nook and corner of Western Ghats over the last 12 years and visited more than 100 villages to source mango varieties from which appe midis are made.
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The overall aim of the proposed Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) is to monitor the genomic variations in the COVID-19 on a regular basis through a multi-laboratory network. Representational Image | Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi: In view of the new strain of COVID-19 detected in the United Kingdom, the Central government has formed a genomic surveillance consortium for laboratory and epidemiological surveillance of circulating strains of the SARS-CoV-2 in India.
The genomic surveillance consortium, INSACOG, has been formed under the leadership of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New Delhi. Further, more than 50 samples of UK returnees are currently under sequencing at the designated laboratories.