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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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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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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Access to improved crops is a critical tipping point between healthy and hungry families. By using advances in molecular biology and harnessing the rich global stocks of crop genetic resources, the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) aims to...
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Once referred to as an “orphan crop” mainly grown by poor farmers, pigeonpea is now set to join the world’s league of major food crops with the completion of its genome sequence. The completed genome sequence of pigeonpea was featured as an...
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Rajeev Varshney was invited to give a presentation on “Genomics-assisted breeding for groundnut improvement” at the All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Groundnut meeting held on 2-3 November at Bhubaneswar, Orissa. The objective of...
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ICRISAT’s Center of Excellence in Genomics (CEG), supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India announced its 8th training course on Application of Molecular Markers in Crop Improvement to be held during 8-19 November at...
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On 22 July, the pigeonpea core group scientists had a brainstorming session to discuss and share the state-of-the-art research on Phytophthora blight, a disease affecting pigeonpea in an increasingly warmer world. ICRISAT breeders...
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“High quality agricultural research is certainly part of the solution of world food security problems. There is an urgent need for more comprehensive and holistic solutions and integrated approaches that take changing needs and demands into...
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As a part of the capacity building exercise under the Tropical Legumes I (TLI) – Phase II project entitled Improving chickpea productivity for marginal environments in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa of CGIAR Generation Challenge...
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