Research Article STATUS OF BIOINFORMATICS APPLICATIONS IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN INDIA

Abstract

Agriculture has been, and continues to be, the backbone of national economy for many countries like India. The growth of various innovative technologies including improved varieties, agro-techniques and precision agriculture forms an important component of the strategies for improved production and productivity in crops and animals. The bioinformatics tools are playing important role in providing the information about the genes present in the genome of these species. These tools also have made it likely to predict the function of different genes and factors affecting these genes. Agricultural genomics leads to the global understanding of plant/animal and pathogen biology, and its application would be beneficial for agriculture approaches in the era of Next-Generation Sequencing for its influence in genomics, transcriptomic, and metagenomics efforts, describing their role in agriculture and allied sectors.