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Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands

1. Lead and develop a breeding strategy geared towards delivering products in product market combinations.2. Leading the breeding team consisting of breeding, pre-breeding and support.3. Driving and operationalizing the hybrid potato breeding strategy and associated breeding goals4. Managing the portfolio of breeding programs and pre-breeding projects per the breeding strategy.5. Managing the interface with various departments such as Research, Product development, Supply Chain and IT.6. Responsible for proactively deploying new technologies and methods within the breeding program.7. Responsible for team members' coaching and personal development and a positive working atmosphere.8. Actively involved in the development of the intellectual property.

Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands

Leading the integration of IT solutions in Research, Breeding, Agronomy, Product Development, Supply chain and Sales

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Formulation and execution of the strategic Genomics Research and execution plan for Seeds R&D. In coordination with plant breeders develop and run genomics assisted breeding activities in field crop and vegetables. Global scanning for identification and assessment of new traits and technologies, its introduction and application within the team.

Hyderabad Area, India

Responsible to impart excellence in the formulation and development of various breeding solutions. Mandate to bring speed and precision to the breeding programs through technology interventions.Key Responsibilities• Scouting of global technology partners and coordination.• Implementation of effective breeding management in R&D.• Building consensus and collaboration with breeders.Achievements• Linkages and partnerships developed with International public and private research institutes for employing trait discovery projects in rice, corn, cotton, tomato, and chilli pepper.• Instrumental role in driving the Phenome One software adoption within R&D for field crops and vegetables.• Planned, evaluated and analyzed research and multi-location yield trials of different product life stages.• Strengthened product pipeline by designing experiment, phenotyping & collecting data in farmer managed off site trials for hybrid advancement.• Established phenotyping protocol for estimation of pungency and colour value in chilli pepper from single plant samples.• Lead the biotech lab from scratch and implemented molecular breeding in rice, corn, cotton, tomato, and chilli pepper.

Hyderabad Area, India

Hyderabad Area, India

Hyderabad Area, India

Accountable for delivering timely results and publishing the outcome in the reputed peer-reviewed journals. Managing multiple international public funded research projects. Capacity building and strengthening partnerships.Key Responsibilities• Accelerate the trait discovery program.• Development of genomics resources in peanut.• Provide scientific advice and technical assistance to researchers. Achievements• Developed and phenotype recombinant inbred lines for the FAD2 and foliar disease resistance genes in peanut • Introgression of FAD2 genes in peanut for enhancing oil quality • Identified marker-trait association in and advanced backcross – QTL population in peanut for disease resistance and oil quality• Discovered marker-trait association for agronomic, oil quality, biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in peanut.• Developed cost-effective KASP genotyping assays.• Published 10 research articles, two reviews, and one book chapter.

Hyderabad Area, India

Tifton, Ga, Usa

Peanut genomics and molecular breeding: To conduct the collaborative research between ICRISAT and the University of Georgia/USDA, which focus on research in peanut genetics and breeding for drought tolerance, disease resistance and aflatoxin contamination.

Hyderabad Area, India

Worked on firming up the public-private partnership in hybrid rice research by developing value-added germplasm lines containing agronomic traits of importance. Also worked on developing and setting-up experimental protocols for the outcrossing traits in rice.Key Responsibilities• Lead and manage the hybrid rice research portfolio.• Development and application of molecular markers for adding value to the line development breeding program.• Manage the rice germplasm conservation, characterization, and distribution.Achievements• Developed and phenotype recombinant inbred lines for the restorer of fertility genes and backcross population in rice for elongated uppermost internode gene.• Standardized the phenotyping of outcrossing trait related trait stigma exertion. Identified an interesting “Trifid Stigma Morphotype” in a maintainer line of rice.• Managed germplasm conservation and distribution of over 1500 rice germplasm. Distributed the rice germplasm to more than 45 public and private institutions under SMTA.• Published 12 research articles.

Hyderabad Area, India

Active contribution in hybrid rice research program, standardization of phenotyping protocol for hybrid rice related traits, maintenance breeding and germplasm management

Hyderabad Area, India

Heterosis breeding, mapping population development, MAS, application of molecular tools in development of hybrid rice parental lines

Hyderabad Area, India

Heterosis breeding, mapping population development, MAS, application of molecular tools in development of hybrid rice parental lines

Hyderabad Area, India

Heterosis breeding, mapping population development, MAS, application of molecular tools in development of hybrid rice parental lines

Philippines

Fine mapping of grain yield QTLs under drought stress:I worked on fine-mapping of major drought QTLs qDTY3.1 and qDTY2.2 in drought group.

Hyderabad Area, India

Molecular characterization of different cytoplasmic male sterile lines using mitochondrial DNA specific markers in rice

Doctorate, Genetics

Masters In Agriculture, Genetics And Plant Breeding

Bachelor’S Degree, Botany/Plant Biology