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Place of Birth: Bahjoi, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Rajeev Kumar Varshney
- Rajeev K Varshney is an agricultural scientist with expertise in genetics, genomics, molecular breeding and capacity building.
- He has more than 20 years of research experience in the area of international agriculture.
- He is currently working as global Research Program Director–Genetic Gains that includes several units viz.
- Genebank, Pre-Breeding, Cell, Molecular Biology & Genetic Engineering, Genomics & Trait Discovery, Forward Breeding, Seed Systems and Biotechnology- ESA, and Sequencing and Informatics Unit at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), headquartered at Patancheru, India.
- He is Founding Director for the Center of Excellence in Genomics & Systems Biology at ICRISAT and Adjunct Professor with several universities including Winthrop Research Professor with The University of Western Australia, West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (University of Ghana), University of Hyderabad, Chaudhary Charan Singh University and Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University. Before heading the Research Program Genetic Gains, he served/serving ICRISAT in various capacities including Research Program Director- Grain Legumes (2013-2016), Principal Scientist- Applied Genomics (2008- to date), Senior Scientist (2005- 2008).
- He also worked with CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme (GCP), hosted at CIMMYT, Mexico as Theme Leader - Comparative and Applied Genomics (CAG) from 2007-2013. Varshney has research experience in the area of crop genomics and molecular breeding.
- He has interest in development and application of genomic tools and strategies for applied breeding of the legume and cereal crops of the semi-arid tropics.
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