Technologies
Title: | Molecular techniques for meat species and sex identification |
Area: | Agricultural Sciences |
Sub Area: | Molecular biology |
Focus Area: | Recombinant biology |
Company Transferred: | Department of Animal Husbandry, Government Punjab |
Developing Agency: | National Research Centre on Meat (NRCM), Hyderabad, Telangana, 500092 |
Technology Readiness Index: | Technology developed |
Email: | nrcmeat_director@yahoo.co.in |
| Website Link : | https://nrcmeat.icar.gov.in/docs/ACHIEVEMENTS.pdf |
Brief Description
Description : | Identification of sex of meat animals is an important issue as cow slaughter is banned in India in most of the states. Keeping this in mind a technology for identification of sex of the animal from which the meat is produced has been developed which involves PCR amplification of Amelogenin XY gene |