Work Arrangements at DOST-PNRI During MECQ
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Work Arrangements at DOST-PNRI During MECQ
In line with the announcement imposing Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) over NCR Plus, the DOST-PNRI will be adopting skeleton workforce and work-from-home arrangements until further notice.
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Better Food Crop Varieties Through Nuclear Science
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Adlai, more commonly known as Job's Tears (left) is a viable alternative to staple food crops such as rice (right)
Better Food Crop Varieties Through Nuclear Science
Harnessing the power of the atom to help improve the country's agricultural productivity, the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (DOST-PNRI) continues to develop new varieties of plants with unique or improved characteristics.
These traits can be induced from plants through the marvels of mutation breeding using gamma rays.
Among these traits of new varieties are changes in color, size or height, increase in yield, early maturity, resistance to pests and diseases or tolerance to drought, flooding, acid soils, salinity and high temperatures, among others.
Because these traits came from within the plant's genes and not introduced from other organisms, mutant plants are NOT genetically-modified organisms or GMOs.
Scientists and researchers from DOST-PNRI are hard at work developing mutant varieties of staple food crops such as rice, as well as viable alternatives such as adlai or Job's tears.
Read more: Better Food Crop Varieties Through Nuclear Science
Detecting radiation among corals
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Coral core sampling by Dr. Fernando Siringan of UP-MSI (left) and Dr. Angel Bautista VII of DOST-PNRI (right)
Detecting radiation among corals
On March 11, 2011, exactly 10 years ago from today, a massive earthquake followed by a tsunami hit the eastern coast of Japan. This led to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident.
This week, in the sea waters of Palaui Island, Sta. Ana, Cagayan, Dr. Angel Bautista VII and Dr. Fernando Siringan of the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (DOST-PNRI) and UP-Marine Science Institute (UP-MSI), respectively, check out meter-long coral cores for information on human nuclear activities.
Plant growth promoter team wins Lingkod Bayan Regional Award
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The Carrageenan PGP Team: (top photo, left to right) Fernando Aurigue, career scientist of the PNRI Agriculture Research Section; Francis Cyril Valdez of the PNRI Irradiation Services Section; Dr. Lucille Abad, career scientist and chief of the PNRI Atomic Research Division; and Patrick Jay Cabalar of the PNRI Chemistry Research Section. Dr. Gil Magsino (bottom photo), director of the UPLB National Crop Protection Center, is also part of the team.
Plant growth promoter team wins Lingkod Bayan Regional Award
For developing the radiation-processed Carrageenan Plant Growth Promoter (PGP) that helped increase the harvests in farmlands across the country, scientists and researchers from the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (DOST-PNRI) won the Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award at the regional level.
The award is part of the Civil Service Commission’s 2020 Search for Outstanding Government Workers.
The Carrageenan PGP team includes Career Scientists Dr. Lucille Abad and Fernando Aurigue, and PNRI researchers Patrick Jay Cabalar and Francis Cyril Valdez. Also in the team is Dr. Gil Magsino, currently the director of the National Crop Protection Center of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños.
The team developed PGP from carrageenan, a natural polymer extracted from red seaweed. Using the fabricated liquid handling system at PNRI’s Electron Beam Irradiation Facility, the carrageenan solution was processed using electron beam into a foliar fertilizer sprayed at certain stages in the plant’s life.
Read more: Plant growth promoter team wins Lingkod Bayan Regional Award
