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Doreen Mashler and Young Scientist Awards announced

Dr PM Gaur, Director – Research Program, Asia, ICRISAT, was awarded the Doreen Margaret Mashler Award, ICRISAT’s highest science award for his substantial contribution in chickpea breeding. Photo: ICRISAT

Dr Prakash Gangashetty, Scientist – Pearl Millet Breeding, ICRISAT, was recognized for his high-impact work on pearl millet in West and Central Africa, with the Young Scientist Award. Photo: ICRISAT

Title: Development and promotion of high yielding, climate resilient chickpea cultivars suited to local growing conditions of the target districts of Odisha

Funder: National Food Security Mission Cell, Directorate of Agriculture & Food Production, Odisha

Period: 1 Apr 2019 – 31 Mar 2021

Principal Investigator: Dr Pooran Gaur

Research Program: Asia

Title: Developing a methodology for prioritizing soil health investments in Ethiopia

Funder: GIZ Ethiopia

Period: 1 Feb – 31 Dec 2019

Principal Investigator: Dr Tilahun Amede

Research Program: Eastern and Southern Africa

Title: Implementation of Agri Monitored Re-Engineering and Transformation (ARMT) project in one block of Rajnandgaon under RKVY (RAFTAAR)

Donor: Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Chhattisgarh

Period: 2018-19

Principal Investigator: Ram Kiran Dhulipala

Research Program: Innovation Systems for the Drylands

Development of an optimum diet for mass rearing of the rice moth, Corcyra cephalonic  (lepidoptera: pyralidae), and production of the parasitoid, Habrobracon hebetor (hymenoptera: braconidae), for the control of pearl millet head miner

Authors: Amadou L, Baoua I, Ba MN and Muniappan R

Published: 2019, Journal of Insect Science, 19 (2). pp. 1-5. ISSN 1536-2442

http://oar.icrisat.org/11090/

Understanding the relations between farmers’ seed demand and research methods: The challenge to do better

Authors: Almekinders CJM, Beumer K, Hauser M, Misiko M, Gatto M, Nkurumwa AO and Erenstein O

Published: 2019, Outlook on Agriculture. pp. 1-6. ISSN 0030-7270

http://oar.icrisat.org/11091/

Applications of virus induced gene silencing (vigs) in plant functional genomics studies

Authors: Bekele D, Tesfaye K and Fikre A

Published: 2019, Journal of Plant Biochemistry & Physiology, 7 (1). pp. 1-7. ISSN 2329-9029

http://oar.icrisat.org/11095/

Sorghum cultivation and improvement in West and Central Africa

Authors: Weltzien E, Rattunde HFW, van Mourik TA and Ajeigbe HA

Published: 2018, In: Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2: Sorghum utilization around the world. Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science (32). Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, pp. 1-24. ISBN 978-1786761248

http://oar.icrisat.org/11096/

Correlation and path coefficient analysis in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

Authors:  Anuradha B, Saidaiah P, Sudini H, Geetha A and Ravinder Reddy K

Published: 2018, Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 7 (5). pp. 2748-2751. ISSN 2278-4136

http://oar.icrisat.org/11086/

Purification and characterization of Bowman-Birk and Kunitz iso-inhibitors from the seeds of Rhynchosia sublobata (Schumach.) Meikle, a wild relative of pigeonpea

Authors:  Mohanraj SS, Gujjarlapudi M, Lokya V, Mallikarjuna N, Dutta-Gupta A and Padmasree K

Published: 2019, Phytochemistry, 159. pp. 159-171. ISSN 00319422

http://oar.icrisat.org/11087/

Pectin induced transcriptome of a Rhizoctonia solani strain causing sheath blight disease in rice reveals insights on key genes and RNAi machinery for development of pathogen derived resistance

Authors:  Rao TB, Chopperla R, Methre R, Punniakotti E, Venkatesh V, Sailaja B, Reddy MR, Yugander A, Laha GS, Madhav MS, Sundaram RM, Ladhalakshmi D, Balachandran SM and Mangrauthia SK

Published: 2019, Plant Molecular Biology, pp. 1-13. ISSN 0167-4412

http://oar.icrisat.org/11088/

Epistatic interactions of major effect drought QTLs with genetic background loci determine grain yield of rice under drought stress

Authors: Yadav S, Sandhu N, Majumder RR, Dixit S, Kumar S, Singh SP, Mandal NP, Das SP, Yadaw RB, Singh VK, Sinha P, Varshney RK and Kumar A

Published: 2019, Scientific Reports, 9 (1) (2616). pp. 1-13. ISSN 2045-2322

http://oar.icrisat.org/11089/