Dr. Maqsudul Alam discovering the sequence of the fungus
that destroy our jute.
The fungus – macrophomina phaseolina- is responsible for damaging jute and
500 more crops. 30% of the jute in our country are destroyed by this fungus
causing loss of Tk. 4000 crore per year. By applying this gene code of fungus
and jute code that he discovered 2 years back, new varieties of jute can be
developed that will be finer in form and more resistant to fungus. The project was financed by Bangladesh Government. The news was disclosed by the PM in the Parliament. The article was published in BMC Genomics on 17 September 2012. 17 scientists of different labs worked in the team. Final sequence of fungus gene was unveiled in the BARI laboratory, Dhaka.
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