Original Post: ICRISAT Happenings ICRISAT’s CEGSB conducts two-week training in next generation genomics for PJTSAU scientists To accelerate crop improvement in Telangana, ICRISAT’s Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology (CEGSB)...
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Original Post: ICRISAT Happenings To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a generation of high-level teachers in India, 30 scientists/assistant professors and 16 students were...
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Original Post: ICRISAT Happenings New partnership with global agriculture research giant to focus on tackling challenge of health, environmental and social sustainability in food Reading/Hyderabad, 14 November: Farmers around the world can be...
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Highlights Pangenome studies conducted so far have been limited mainly to one species and mostly cultivated accessions. The challenge with the current pangenomes is lack of representation of genomic diversity at the genus level. Crop wild...
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Original Post: ICRISAT Happenings Two new groundnut varieties with more than 78% oleic acid have captured the attention of the Indian groundnut industry which is keen on marketing ‘healthier’ oil to consumers in the next 2-3 years. Information on...
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Original Post: ICRISAT Happenings India and Australia have joined hands in a multi-institutional project to enhance drought tolerance in chickpea. The project, ‘Functional Genomics of Chickpea to enhance drought tolerance’, will see The...
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Original Post: ICRISAT Happenings A recent training course sought to enable young scientists, professors and breeders in the area of genomics-assisted crop breeding for climate-resilient agriculture. The participants were from partner institutes...
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India will provide free food grains to more than 800 million poor people during the COVID-19 lockdown. However, nutrition security is more important than food security in the coronavirus crisis, experts say. Original post in Nature India Amidst...
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Original Post: ICRISAT Happenings ICRISAT scientist joins in for webinar series during COVID-19 lockdown Genomics-assisted crop breeding technology can help advance crop improvement at an accelerated pace to ensure food security for a growing...
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Original Post: ICRISAT Happenings Online lecture connects the dots between genomics, nutrition and health Crop diversification, genomics-assisted breeding and understanding the role of the gut microbiome is crucial in lowering the risks of...
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Original Post: ICRISAT Happenings Scientists, researchers and policymakers endorsed the potential of genomics and other molecular breeding tools and approaches towards food, health, and nutrition security through agriculture. In a recent webinar...
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Original Post: ICRISAT Happenings New study reveals how in some lines male sterility can be reversed to produce hybrids faster and cheaper Researchers have identified how temperature controls male fertility in some lines of pigeonpea and have...
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