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Prof. Varshney has been recognised by the Royal Society for his seminal work on integrating genomic discoveries in crop improvement for developing climate-resilient and nutritious legume crop varieties
Rajeev Varshney elected as Fellow of the Royal Society for his work towards food and nutrition security Read More
About 300 stalls will be set up at the expo, which will showcase the applications of biotechnology in various fields such as healthcare, genomics, biopharma, agriculture, and industrial biotechnology among others
PM to inaugurate Biotech Startup Expo at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi tomorrow Read More
Long-established safeguards and processes are in place in the plant breeding to effectively handle unintended changes. Dr. Ratna Kumria, Director- Biotechnology, Alliance for Agri Innovation writes…
Agri scientists now have advance tools for plant breeding Read More
Led by ICRISAT, the research team identified 29,870 genes that includes 1,582 previously unreported novel genes. The research is the largest effort of its kind for any plant, putting chickpea in a small group of crops with such an extensive genome map
Largest plant genome sequencing effort yields a pan-genome for chickpea, sets it up for a breeding revolution Read More
The new chickpea varieties, IPC L4-14, BGM 4005 and IPCMB 19-3, are a result of ICRISAT’s collaborations with ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur and ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
New climate-resilient, disease-resistant chickpea varieties coming farmers’ way Read More
Releasing two new chickpea varieties is a successful story of collaboration of ICAR institutes, state agricultural universities and an international organisation
Drought tolerant & disease resistant chickpea varieties set to get released Read More
The award is a recognition of Prof Varshney’s scientific research and pioneering contributions in integrating advanced discoveries in genomics with crop improvement in developing countries
ICRISAT scientist wins GD Birla Award for Scientific Research Read More
The genomics laboratory will help farmers in analysing the quality of soil, water and produce
Rice institute gets Central Genomics and Quality Laboratory Read More
American Society of Agronomy has conferred its prestigious 2018 fellowship to Dr Rajeev K Varshney, Research Program Director, Genetic Gains at ICRISAT in Baltimore, USA
US body honours Indian scientist for genomics & molecular breeding Read More