PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-RETURN OF PAKISTANI SEEDS FROM CHINESE SPACE STATION

PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-RETURN OF PAKISTANI SEEDS FROM CHINESE SPACE STATION

(230209) -- ISLAMABAD, Feb. 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Atia-tul-Wahab (C), a professor at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, receives returned Pakistani seeds from Chinese space station during the event "Celebration of the Return of Pakistani Seeds from Chinese Space Station" in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan on Feb. 8, 2023. The new phase of seed cooperation between Pakistan and China is critically important for Pakistan to meet the food security challenge in the future, a Pakistani minister said. China helped Pakistan take seven herbal seeds to the Chinese space station for space breeding by exposing them to cosmic radiation and microgravity to mutate their genes, and in this regard an event was held here to mark the successful return of the seeds. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Pak-China seed cooperation important for Pakistan's food security" (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)

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