Q.What was the aim of the Rice Genome Project, and why is it of particular relevance to a state like West Bengal?

Step 1. The Rice Genome Project, inspired by and run alongside the Human Genome Project, sequenced the complete genome of rice (Oryza sativa).

Step 2. Its aim was to identify the specific genes underlying agriculturally important traits — crop yield, disease and pest resistance, drought and stress tolerance, and grain nutritional quality.

Step 3. Rice is a crop of immense economic and food-security importance across Asia, and West Bengal in particular is one of India's leading rice-growing states, making this genomic information directly relevant to the state's own agriculture. …

Connect the project's general aim (find agriculturally useful genes) to the SPECIFIC local relevance the question as …

• Treating the Rice Genome Project as unrelated to the Human Genome Project — it was directly inspired by …