The Sandalwood Genome / Compendium of Plant Genomes (PDF)

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Dr. Mahesh. H. B. is currently working as an Assistant Professor at University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (UASB). He obtained his B.Sc. Agri and M.Sc. Agriculture in Genetics and Plant Breeding degrees from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India. He has worked in Monsanto in various aspects of corn molecular breeding such as pre-selection through seed chipping, marker-assisted breeding, haplotyping and SNP-based fingerprinting. He has received eight gold medals in B.Sc. and M.Sc. for his outstanding performace in academics. In Monsanto, he has received Rapid Recogition award, Emerging Star award and Breeding Champion award for his outstanding contribution to corn breeding. He has received prestigious and highly competititve Monsanto's Beachell-Boralug International Fellowship from Texas A & M, USA for his Ph. D research at University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, and Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He has 10 years of experience in plant breeding, genomics and bioinformatics. He took a lead in genome sequencing and functional annotation of rice, finger millet, sandalwood, horsegram, winged bean, Magnaporthe oryzae, Sarocladium oryzae and Bacillus velezensis genomes. He has been conferred with Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Outstanding Doctoral thesis research in Crop Science by Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), New. Delhi. Presently, his research interests are application of genomics, transcriptomics and proteoimcs technologies to understand economically important traits in crops like rice, fingermillet and other important food crops.



Prof. Chittaranjan Kole is an internationally reputed scientist with an illustrious professional career spanning over thirty-seven years and original contributions in the fields of plant genomics and biotechnology leading to the publication of more than 150 research articles in globally leading journals. He has edited over 150 books for the leading publishers of the world including Springer Nature, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor & Francis Group. His works and editing acumen have been appreciated by seven Nobel Laureates including Profs. Norman Borlaug, Arthur Kornberg, Werner Arber, Phillip Sharp, Günter Blobel, Lee Hartwell and Roger Kornberg. Previously he was a Visiting Professor in The Pennsylvania State University and Clemson University. He also served as the Vice-Chancellor of the BC Agricultural University in India. He is also the President and Founding Principal Coordinator of the International Climate-Resilient Crop Genomics Consortium (ICRCGC) and International Phytomedomics and Nutriomics Consortium (IPNC).