Q. The pigeonpea variety ‘Asha’, recently seen in the news, is significant because:

[A] It is India's first pigeonpea variety with a fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference genome

[B] It is India's first biofortified pigeonpea variety enriched with Vitamin A

[C] It is India's first hybrid pigeonpea developed using CRISPR-Cas9 technology

[D] It is a wild pigeonpea species discovered in the Western Ghats

Answer: A
Notes:

Explanation: ‘Asha’ is the first pigeonpea variety in India to have a fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference genome, developed by ICAR to facilitate the breeding of high-yielding, climate-resilient, and nutritionally enriched pigeonpea varieties.

Source- PIB

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