CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Durum wheat variety MACS 4028 is a semi-dwarf variety of the cereal crop developed by the Agharkar Research Institute in Pune- an autonomous research centre under DST. It has 14.7% higher protein content than regular wheat and also other minerals like iron (46.1ppm) and zinc (40.3ppm).

Detailed explanation-2: -Atlas-66 is biofortified wheat variety.

Detailed explanation-3: -Atlas 66 is a Biofortified hybrid wheat variety with high protein content. The objective of biofortification is to develop micronutrient dense staple crops to achieve provitamins A, iron and zinc concentrations that can have a measurable impact on nutritional status.

Detailed explanation-4: -Although wheat flour is commonly fortified during processing, an attractive and more sustainable solution is biofortification, which requires developing new varieties of wheat with inherently higher iron and zinc content in their grains.

Detailed explanation-5: -Atlas 66 is the biofortified wheat variety rich in proteins. These have been used in plant breeding to improve the cultivated wheat varieties.