Rajeev Varshney

Rajeev K. Varshney has over 10 years research experience in the area of plant genomics and crop biotechnology. After earning the Ph.D. degree from India, he worked at Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany, for about five years and he joined the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India, in 2005. He has over 60 research papers/articles in the reputed journals (e.g., PNAS, USA, Trends in Plant Sciences, Trends in Biotechnology, The Plant Journal, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Plant Breeding, Euphytica) and two edited books, Cereal Genomics and Kluwer and Model Plants and Crop Improvement, CRC Press, to his credit. The citation index of his published papers has already exceeded the 500 numbers. He has participated, as invited speaker, chairman, felicitator, and rapporteur, in several international workshops/symposia/conferences/meetings. He is serving some journals such as Euphytica and Plant Genetic Resources as Associate Editor and the international Triticeae EST-SSR Coordination platform, and the Recombinational Analysis coordination area of the International Triticeae Mapping Initiative (ITMI) as Coordinator. He has interest in development and application of genomic tools and strategies for applied breeding of the legume and cereal crops of the semiarid tropics.

Biography Updated on 3 May 2007