Dr Rajeev Varshney, Director, Centre of Excellence in Genomics (CEG), visited the Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany on 11-13 March to explore opportunities for future research collaboration. There...
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Role of genomics in orphan crops’ productivity featured in Nature Biotechnology Despite advances in genomics over the past 20 years, the overall adoption of genomics-assisted breeding in developing countries is limited, especially for complex...
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Legumes, known as “food for all” as they represent a healthy and affordable dietary source for all types of people, rich or poor, are the subject of a big, international scientific conference here in Hyderabad. The 6th International Conference on...
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The XI Task Force Meeting on Accelerated Crop Improvement Programme (ACIP) of India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) was hosted at ICRISAT on 11 October. Attended by the Task Force members, Project Coordinators, Principal Investigators (PIs)...
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With an unprecedented global demand for higher yields within sustainable production systems, advances in genomics for enhanced breeding efficiency are now shaping modern crop improvement towards long-term food security. New tools of modern...
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Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT’s Director, Center of Excellence in Genomics, participated in a brainstorming session organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a small group of external experts to explore ways in which advances in...
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On his recent visit to China, Dr Rajeev Varshney was conferred a Visiting Professorship by the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS), for his contribution and expanding collaboration in the area of groundnut genomics. Dr Varshney was...
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The launch and planning meeting of the project on “Genomic approaches for stress tolerant chickpea” funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology under the Australian-Indian Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) programme was held on 17 April at...
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In the fight against poverty and hunger amid the threat of climate change, highly nutritious, drought tolerant crops are the best bets for smallholder farmers in the dryland tropics of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to survive and improve their...
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A group of scientists from the Biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) Research Consortium, of which the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is an active member, believes that science now offers an option...
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Rajeev Varshney received the prestigious NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award for 2010 for his dedicated research contribution in agriculture. He was honored at an awards ceremony held at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, on 21 March...
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Striga hermonthica infests cereal-based cropping systems in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts to manage the weed have led to control options and now the biology of the weed, the mechanisms of resistance and the effects on the host plants...
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