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LUDHIANA: Three masked goons attacked and robbed two employees of a fuel station near Dhandra Road on Friday evening.
CCTV cameras installed at the spot have captured the incident.
The injured are fuel station manager Sunil Kumar and employee Sushil.
Their employer, Davinder Singh, said, “Around 5.15pm, three masked men came to the filling station on a bike. After getting their bike refueled, one of them went inside the office on the pretext of drinking water. Brandishing a country-made pistol, he asked the manager to hand over cash to him. When the manager refused, he thrashed him and made him open the cash drawer.”
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What traits can be improved in corn with the ufo1 gene’s help?
“Certainly, stress tolerance, but also likely seed development, which has implications in seed yield as well as improved biomass,” Chopra said. “And we would like to develop a better plant type that could grow in more dense culture, yet still be more productive. And finally, we need to look at resiliency and sustainability. Can we breed corn lines that get the same amount of yield with lower fertilizer inputs and need less water?”
Chopra started research on the Maize ufo1 gene because of its association with an orange/red pigmentation in the mutant corn line. Celebrated maize geneticist Charles Burnham, at the University of Minnesota, identified this conspicuous ufo1 mutant circa 1960. Another well-known maize geneticist, Derek Styles, with the University of Victoria, Canada, a student of Burnham’s, then chose the name, which stands for “unstable factor for orange.�
Ludhiana: The Dugri police have booked an employee of an IT company for stealing data from the company and further selling it to another IT company. The owner, manager and employee of another IT company to which the data was sold have also been booked. According to the company owner, he has incurred losses of over Rs 50 lakh.
The accused have been identified as the Kamesh Dubey of Rama Mandi of Jalandhar, who was an employee of the IT company, Education Culture Private Limited, Gagandeep Kaur of Omax Royal Residency, who is owner of the accused company Edu Lark Global and his two employees Prateek Jain of Mahaveer Enclave and Harmanpreet Singh of Dehlon. The FIR has been lodged on the complaint of Dev Garg, director of Education Culture Private Limited.