Gene banks Subject: Science and Technology Context :  Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the world’s second-largest refurbished state-of-the-art National Gene Bank at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Pusa, New Delhi. Concept: Gene banks are a type of biorepository that preserves genetic material. Gene banks exist to conserve […]