Q. With respect to the India, ‘DMH-11’, ‘Heera’, ‘Donskaja’ are the varieties of which of the following?
Answer: Mustard
Notes:

• Dhara Mustard Hybrid (DMH-11) is an indigenously developed transgenic mustard. It is a genetically modified variant of Herbicide Tolerant (HT) mustard.
• It contains two alien genes (‘barnase’ and ‘barstar’) isolated from a soil bacterium called Bacillus amyloliquefaciens that enable breeding of high-yielding commercial mustard hybrids.
• It has been developed by the Centre for Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants (CGMCP) at Delhi University.
• ‘Heera’ and ‘Donskaja’ are other varieties of mustard.

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