For obtaining fungus resistance, strategies outlined for lentil can be easily used. In Australia and France transgenic plants with reduced lignin content, have been produced by manipulating the enzymes of the lignin pathway. If this can be done in jute, then the quality of jute fabric could be enhanced so much that it could compete with cotton. Bangladesh Jute Research Institute has over 2000 accessions of jute collected from South East Asia and Africa. Many have desirable properties like fungus resistance or flood tolerance.
Nothing is known about the jute genome.
Markers for useful characteristics, could be identified by generating a suitable mapping or breeding population between commercial and otherwise useful cultivars. The process of DNA marking is sufficiently simplified now, so that such projects can be easily undertaken. Projects for rapid multiplication of flora special to our country can be easily undertaken, e.g. our indigenous orchids, medicinal plants, special varieties of mangoes, etc. For the production of salt tolerant rice, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute have already initiated several cross-breeding programs. However, these breeding programs can be accelerated by use of DNA markers co-segregating with salt tolerance, some of which have already been identified at International Rice Research Institute.