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A. Pratap

Also known as: Aditya Pratap, Aditya Garg, Aditya P. Garg, A. Pratap

Indian Institute of Pulses Research

ORCID iD 0000-0001-7280-0953
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I am the Project Coordinator, All India Coordinated Research project on Kharif (Warm Season) Pulses, based at ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur. I have worked on genetic improvements of crop plants including Vigna species, wheat, triticale, rapeseed-mustard and chickpea and been associated with the development and release of 13 crop varieties including 9 in green gram, 3 in rapeseed-mustard and one in facultative winter wheat including worlds’ first earliest variety of mungbean Virat. I have been the team lead for several national and international collaborative projects and has been one of the leading partners in “Establishing International Mungbean Improvement Network”. I have >240 publications and edited 6 books. My research interests include distant hybridization, doubled haploidy breeding, plant tissue culture and molecular breeding. I am the recipient of the prestigious Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship, USA and also the ICAR-Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award.

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  • Indian Institute of Pulses Research Principal Scientist
    2014 - Present

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