Can India sustain high growth of pulses production?
India has made remarkable progress in enhancing production of pulses during the past 15 years. During 2005-06, the total production of pulses Read more...
Well-designed strategy drives pearl millet mainstreaming nutrition initiative
A well-designed strategy currently being implemented to develop pearl millet lines that are both high-yielding and high in iron (Fe) and zinc Read more...
ICAR recognizes ICRISAT scientist with prestigious Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award
Dr Rajeev Varshney, Director, ICRISAT’s Genetic Gains Research Program, was named a recipient of Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Read more...
Workshop on gene editing held at ICRISAT
Twenty crop scientists from Asia and Africa were trained for two weeks at ICRISAT on gene-editing tools, including the increasingly popular CRISPR/Cas Read more...
Modernizing NARS crop breeding programs for improved genetic gains in 14 countries
A course designed to modernize National Agricultural Research System (NARS) breeding programs for improving genetic gains of 9 dryland cereals and grain Read more...
Need to achieve global food security faster? Reach for new technologies, say scientists
Scientists from varied areas of crop research called for a mix of molecular techniques to accelerate genetic gains and meet the growing Read more...
Top honour for ICRISAT’s Dr Rajeev K Varshney
Receives American Society of Agronomy fellowship for contributions to Genomics & Molecular breeding Hyderabad, 22 November 2018: The American Society of Agronomy Read more...
Major step forward in chickpea and pigeonpea research – reference genome data assembled
Addressing protein hunger: New genome assemblies of chickpea and pigeonpea lines available @ICRISAT will allow scientists to better understand plant traits to breed more nutritional varieties. Processes that take years were completed in a few months with NRGene’s DeNovoMAGICTM 3.0
Celebrating a decade of genomic advances in agriculture
Hyderabad [7 December 2017]: The time taken to develop improved crop varieties has almost halved with the rapid strides made in genomics Read more...
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for genomics and molecular work in pulses
The importance of genomics breeding for advancements in agriculture was recognized by bestowing the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award on Dr Rajeev Read more...