Terminator Technology: Comprehensive Understanding of Seed Suicidal Technology
Vijay Kamal Meena
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, Delhi (110 012), India
Subhash Chand*
ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh (284 003), India
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ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh (284 003), India
Rajesh Kumar Singhal
ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh (284 003), India
Bharath Kumar Alam
ICAR-National Research Centre for Orchid, Pakyong, Sikkim (737 106), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Hybrid seed production, Seed Suicidal Technology, Terminator technology, Verminator technology
Abstract
In India, Plant breeding has been major concern of public sector institutes rather than profit oriented private seed companies for more than century. This was for protection of farming community and free flow of planting material among resource poor small and marginal farmers. Terminator technology provides legal right to the developers or originators of transgenic plants or animals to protect their material or breed from using by someone in an unauthorised way. The terminator technology prohibits the use of farm produced seed in the subsequent generation by the grower. Thus, farmers have to purchase fresh seeds at each season from the market. This technology not only restricts the use of seeds from the previous season but also ascertain monopoly in the seed industry.
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