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Annual Report (2016-17) 2016-17 ICAR-NATIONAL BUREAU OF ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES With Best Compliments from Director, ICAR-NBAGR okf"kZd izfrosnu ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17 Hkkd` vuqi&jk"Vªh; i'kq vkuqoaf'kd lalk/ku C;wjks djuky&132001 ¼gfj;k.kk½ Hkkjr ICAR-NATIONAL BUREAU OF ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES Karnal-132 001 (Haryana ) INDIA i Contents From Director's Desk I 2016-17 Executive Summary Iii History and Profile About Bureau 03 Divisional Profile 04 Organogram 07 Financial Outlay 08 Research Accomplishments ICAR-NATIONAL BUREAU OF ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES Livestock Information Management 13 Phenotypic Characterization and Evaluation of AnGR 15 Credit line ... Conservation of AnGR 25 Genetic Characterization and Genomics 26 Published by Network Project on AnGR 34 Externally Funded Projects 36 Dr. Arjava Sharma, Director From Director's Desk .... ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources Research Projects and Publications I am pleased to present the major activities and achievements of ICAR- National Bureau of Animal Genetic Karnal-132001 (Haryana) India Research Projects 49 Publications 50 Resources in the form of this annual report for the period 2016-17. Since its inception in 1984, the institute has Compiled by Patents and Technologies 54 been constantly putting sincere efforts to meet the objectives under its mandated activities of identication, Awards 54 characterization, evaluation and conservation of domestic animal genetic resources of the country. Dr. N.K. Verma, Principal Scientist I am happy to inform that during the last one year, bureau scientists have identied and characterized new & I/C, PME Cell Training and Capacity Building cattle germplasm of Ladakh region which is well adapted to harsh climatic and hypoxic conditions and also Dr. Jayakumar S, Scientist Trainings 59 Exhibitions 60 yields A2 type milk under extensive management system. Besides this, cattle populations of north-east and Editors Visit of Farmers and Students 60 Konkan regions, Bargur buffaloes of Tamilnadu and buffaloes of Odisha state have also been characterized Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav 61 and found suitable for registration as new germplasm. Among small ruminants and other livestock, our Dr. N.K. Verma, Principal Scientist scientists have characterized Mouli and Yelga sheep populations of Karnataka, Chitarangi and Dumba sheep Dr. R.S. Kataria, Principal Scientist Other Activities of Rajasthan and Punjab, Long hair goat of Nagaland and local donkeys of Andhra Pradesh. In situ Dr. A.K. Mishra, Principal Scientist Library 65 Dr. S.K. Niranjan, Senior Scientist Important Meetings 65 conservation of Hariana and Sahiwal cows has been taken in gaushalas where 17 calves were produced Dr. Jayakumar S. Scientist Celebrations 65 through AI. Germplasm repository of Gene Bank was strengthened by preserving more semen doses, embryos, Sports 66 epididymal sperms, DNA and somatic cells as ex situ activity. New initiative for developing and preserving Staff Welfare Activities 67 the broblast cell line of Bactrian camel has been taken. Y-chromosomal microsatellite based diversity analysis Vigilance Week 67 Activity Photographs has also been accomplished in 18 native cattle breeds. We established that grazing cows have higher MUFA and Distinguished Visitors 67 Dr. Vikas Vohra, Senior Scientist Rashtriya Swachhta Abhiyan 68 PUFA as well as essential amino acid contents as compared to stall fed animals. Work on analysis of meat 7 I/C, P&E Unit 7 1 quality parameters in Bandur and local sheep was also carried out which indicated higher tenderness in Bandur 1 - - 6 Personnel sheep meat. Being the nodal agency, bureau registered nine new breeds of livestock and poultry which 6 1 1 0 Personalia 71 Assistance increased the total registered breeds in the country as 160. 0 2 2 Promotions 73 Dr. P.S. Dangi, C.T.O. T Superannuation 73 Milestones have also been achieved under externally funded projects with the sincere efforts of bureau T R Ms. Indu Bala, Steno Gr. III R O Obituary 73 scientists. Ten populations of seven different species of livestock and poultry have been genetically O P P E characterized under Network Project on AnGR. A de-novo transcriptome assembly representing ten different E R Printing R fgUnh [k.M tissues of Dromedarian and Bactrian camel was constructed. Databases have been developed for SNPs L Aaron Media L A funs'kd dh dye ls 77 identied in these two species as well as for candidate genes related to milk production, disease resistance and A U #UG-17, Super Mall, Sector-12, dk;Zdkjh lkjka'k 79 U N adaptive traits of cattle and buffalo. In buffalo, data generated through genotyping by sequencing helped in the Karnal-132001 (Haryana) N N jktHkk"kk laca/kh xfrfof/k;k¡ 84 identication of QTLs for milk fat and milk protein percentage, age at rst calving, somatic cell score. Besides N A M. +91-98964-33225 A R E: [email protected] using the SNP data generated on 15 buffalo populations, a medium density SNP chip, represented by 98346 R G genome wide SNPs is also being developed. Under National Fellow scheme, transcriptome data was generated G A A B which helped in the identication of several genes and pathways responsible for thermo-tolerance in cattle and B N N i Contents From Director's Desk I 2016-17 Executive Summary Iii History and Profile About Bureau 03 Divisional Profile 04 Organogram 07 Financial Outlay 08 Research Accomplishments ICAR-NATIONAL BUREAU OF ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES Livestock Information Management 13 Phenotypic Characterization and Evaluation of AnGR 15 Credit line ... Conservation of AnGR 25 Genetic Characterization and Genomics 26 Published by Network Project on AnGR 34 Externally Funded Projects 36 Dr. Arjava Sharma, Director From Director's Desk .... ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources Research Projects and Publications I am pleased to present the major activities and achievements of ICAR- National Bureau of Animal Genetic Karnal-132001 (Haryana) India Research Projects 49 Publications 50 Resources in the form of this annual report for the period 2016-17. Since its inception in 1984, the institute has Compiled by Patents and Technologies 54 been constantly putting sincere efforts to meet the objectives under its mandated activities of identication, Awards 54 characterization, evaluation and conservation of domestic animal genetic resources of the country. Dr. N.K. Verma, Principal Scientist I am happy to inform that during the last one year, bureau scientists have identied and characterized new & I/C, PME Cell Training and Capacity Building cattle germplasm of Ladakh region which is well adapted to harsh climatic and hypoxic conditions and also Dr. Jayakumar S, Scientist Trainings 59 Exhibitions 60 yields A2 type milk under extensive management system. Besides this, cattle populations of north-east and Editors Visit of Farmers and Students 60 Konkan regions, Bargur buffaloes of Tamilnadu and buffaloes of Odisha state have also been characterized Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav 61 and found suitable for registration as new germplasm. Among small ruminants and other livestock, our Dr. N.K. Verma, Principal Scientist scientists have characterized Mouli and Yelga sheep populations of Karnataka, Chitarangi and Dumba sheep Dr. R.S. Kataria, Principal Scientist Other Activities of Rajasthan and Punjab, Long hair goat of Nagaland and local donkeys of Andhra Pradesh. In situ Dr. A.K. Mishra, Principal Scientist Library 65 Dr. S.K. Niranjan, Senior Scientist Important Meetings 65 conservation of Hariana and Sahiwal cows has been taken in gaushalas where 17 calves were produced Dr. Jayakumar S. Scientist Celebrations 65 through AI. Germplasm repository of Gene Bank was strengthened by preserving more semen doses, embryos, Sports 66 epididymal sperms, DNA and somatic cells as ex situ activity. New initiative for developing and preserving Staff Welfare Activities 67 the broblast cell line of Bactrian camel has been taken. Y-chromosomal microsatellite based diversity analysis Vigilance Week 67 Activity Photographs has also been accomplished in 18 native cattle breeds. We established that grazing cows have higher MUFA and Distinguished Visitors 67 Dr. Vikas Vohra, Senior Scientist Rashtriya Swachhta Abhiyan 68 PUFA as well as essential amino acid contents as compared to stall fed animals. Work on analysis of meat 7 I/C, P&E Unit 7 1 quality parameters in Bandur and local sheep was also carried out which indicated higher tenderness in Bandur 1 - - 6 Personnel sheep meat. Being the nodal agency, bureau registered nine new breeds of livestock and poultry which 6 1 1 0 Personalia 71 Assistance increased the total registered breeds in the country as 160. 0 2 2 Promotions 73 Dr. P.S. Dangi, C.T.O. T Superannuation 73 Milestones have also been achieved under externally funded projects with the sincere efforts of bureau T R Ms. Indu Bala, Steno Gr. III R O Obituary 73 scientists. Ten populations of seven different species of livestock and poultry have been genetically O P P E characterized under Network Project on AnGR. A de-novo transcriptome assembly representing ten different E R Printing R fgUnh [k.M tissues of Dromedarian and Bactrian camel was constructed. Databases have been developed for SNPs L Aaron Media L A funs'kd dh dye ls 77 identied in these two species as well as for candidate genes related to milk production, disease resistance and A U #UG-17, Super Mall, Sector-12, dk;Zdkjh lkjka'k 79 U N adaptive traits of cattle and buffalo. In buffalo, data generated through genotyping by sequencing helped in the Karnal-132001 (Haryana) N N jktHkk"kk laca/kh xfrfof/k;k¡ 84 identication of QTLs for milk fat and milk protein percentage, age at rst calving, somatic cell score. Besides N A M. +91-98964-33225 A R E: [email protected] using the SNP data generated on 15 buffalo populations, a medium density SNP chip, represented by 98346 R G genome wide SNPs is also being developed.
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