Concocting a new brew of coffee

BV MAHALAKSHMI

Indian Express Newspapers

HYDERABAD, JAN 1: The coffee genomics project, initiated by the department of biotechnology, Coffee Board, and the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), might soon come up with a new brew. CCMB, which had undertaken DNA fingerprinting of coffee germplasm for conservation and development of molecular map under the ‘National Programme on Coffee Biotechnology’, has completed the molecular characterisation of select, elite varieties and has generated molecular markers.

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