Rajeev Varshney

Rajeev Varshney

Rajeev Varshney – ICRISAT - India
 

Director of the Centre of Excellence in Genomics at ICRISAT.
Leader of Comparative and Applied Genomics Theme of CGIAR Generation Challenge Programe (GCP)
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Rajeev Varshney is Director, Centre of Excellence in Genomics ( www.icrisat.org/ceg) and Research Program Director, Grain Legumes at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia.

His research has major focus on development and application of large-scale genomic and transcriptomic resources in legume crops by using next-generation sequencing and high-throughput genotyping technologies.