TOP NEWS ICRISAT’s Varshney bags ASA 2018 fellowship for genomics contributions Our Bureau, Mumbai The American Society of Agronomy (ASA) conferred its prestigious 2018 fellowship on Rajeev K Varshney, research programme director, genetic gains, ICRISAT, in Baltimore, USA for his meritorious contributions to genomics and molecular breeding for crop improvement. Varshney is the only Indian scientist and one of three non-US scientists to have received the fellowship this year. With support from donors and partners worldwide, we, at the ICRISAT’s Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology (CEGSB), have made rapid strides in genomics research and sequenced genomes of nine crops,” he added. The CEGSB at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has been leading genomics and molecular activities for over a decade now. Two daughter societies - the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) and the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) - were subsequently formed.

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