By Vikash Gaurav

Varanasi: Now plants will also be able to protect themselves from insects. Yes, there is no need to be shocked, soon plants will also sense the upcoming danger by smelling the smell present in the environment and develop immunity inside themselves. The next time insects attack plants, their seeds are able to prepare themselves for this attack.

In a way, when the seed germinates and becomes a plant, it prepares insect resistance inside itself. These seeds also have the ability to collect information in memory like humans.

This is the first research of this kind on the self-defence of plants, which has been published in the prestigious journal Chemical Ecology of America. Dr. Abhinav Maurya says that seed priming by smell in seeds has been discovered for the first time. This technology will now enhance the self-defence system of plants. This is called seed priming and direct activation of plant defend mechanisms.

Will prepare immunity booster with scientists?

Now Dr. Maurya will work with scientists from all over the world to prepare a natural immunity booster from the smell of all harmful insects. Dr. Maurya said that if you smell the seeds after making medicine, then any future danger can be handled. In the coming days, to a large extent, the crops damaged by insects will be saved. An application has been made for its provisional patent.

Research on plants of Medicago and Arabidopsis

Dr. Abhinav had taken Medicago and Arabidopsis plant for this research. He said that it has taken a total of five years to do this research. The genes inside the seed have been examined. But it is not yet known how this memory developed.

Agriculture graduate from BHU

Dr. Abhinav Maurya is a resident of Samaspur village located in Jaunpur. His father Awadhesh Maurya is a lawyer in Jaunpur and Gayatri Devi is a housewife. Dr. Abhinav Maurya did his Bachelor of Agriculture (2009-13) in the Institute of Agricultural Sciences. After this he went to IIM-Ahmedabad, but in the meantime, he got a research fellowship in America. From there he completed research from the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Louisville.

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