{"id":104245,"date":"2021-04-30T18:07:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T12:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=104245"},"modified":"2021-04-30T21:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:13:36","slug":"macs-1407-a-new-high-yielding-pest-resistant-soybean-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/macs-1407-a-new-high-yielding-pest-resistant-soybean-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;MACS 1407&#8221; &#8211; A new high-yielding, pest-resistant Soybean Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Scientists from MACS- Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) Pune in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR) have developed a variety of Soybean called <strong>MACS 1407.\u00a0<\/strong>The MACS-ARI is an autonomous institute of the Department of Science &amp; Technology.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>About MACS 1407:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MACS 1407 <\/strong>is a high-yielding and pest-resistant variety of soybean.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cultivation<\/strong>: It is suitable for cultivation in the states of<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and North-Eastern states<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Key Features:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MACS 1407<\/strong> requires an average of 43 days for 50 % flowering. Further, it takes 104 days to mature from the date of sowing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It has white coloured flowers<\/strong>, yellow seeds and black hilum (a scar on a seed marking the point of attachment to its seed vessel). Its seeds have 19.81 % oil content, 41 % protein content and show good germinability (the ability of a seed to germinate).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Advantages:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>High Yielding: <\/strong>It gives 39 quantal per hectare making it a high yielding variety<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pest Resistant: <\/strong>It is resistant to major insect pests like girdle beetle, leaf miner, leaf roller, stem fly, aphids, whitefly and defoliators.<\/li>\n<li>It has certain characters <strong>suitable for mechanical harvesting<\/strong>. Such as,\n<ul>\n<li>It has a thick stem that makes it stronger to harvest using machines.<\/li>\n<li>This variety has higher pod insertion (7 cm) from the ground<\/li>\n<li>It is resistant to pod shattering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of this development:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Firstly, in 2019, India produced around 90 million tons of soybean. This is widely cultivated as oilseeds and a cheap source of protein for animal feed and many packaged meals.<\/li>\n<li>Secondly, India also has a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">target to be among the world\u2019s major producers<\/span> of soybean.<\/li>\n<li>Hence, <strong>MACS 1407 <\/strong>having high yielding, disease-resistant characteristics can help India to achieve this target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1714852\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Scientists from MACS- Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) Pune in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR) have developed a variety of Soybean called MACS 1407.\u00a0The MACS-ARI is an autonomous institute of the Department of Science &amp; Technology. \u00a0About MACS 1407: MACS 1407 is a high-yielding and pest-resistant variety of soybean.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/macs-1407-a-new-high-yielding-pest-resistant-soybean-variety\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;MACS 1407&#8221; &#8211; A new high-yielding, pest-resistant Soybean Variety<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,1738,9],"tags":[1427,1315],"class_list":["post-104245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-agri_4","tag-st_1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700779408,"cached_date":1704780565},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}