A team of researchers of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, (IIT-K) have developed a novel nanoparticle-based bio-degradable-carbonoid-metabolite (BioDCM) that can protect agricultural crops from fungal and bacterial infections.
An IIT-K press release said: “A team led by Santosh K Mishra and Piyush Kumar from the department of biological sciences and bioengineering has developed BioDCM in collaboration with researchers C Kannan and Divya Mishra from ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research, and R Balamurugan and Mou Mandal from the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad.”
This comes as the second such innovation in the agriculture sector from IIT Kanpur since last year.
Last year, out of the 107 patents filed by the institute, one path-breaking invention was the “Bhu-Parikshak” soil-testing device that has proven to significantly reduce time and hassle required for testing soil in the lab.
Adding to that relentless saga of bringing effective innovations to farmers, the…