Climate-Smart Rice Breeding

Dr. Akansha Singh is presently working as DBT BioCARe Scientist in the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, India. She has also worked as a postdoctoral fellow, Mumbai University and as an associate professor, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Parul University, India. She has authored numerous national and international publications in journals of repute. She is one of the breeders of a popular rice variety ‘Malaviya Manila Sinchit Dhan-1’,  released and notified by Government of India in March, 2024. Prof. S. K. Singh is working as a senior professor and Head of the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, B.H.U., Varanasi, India and has more than 34 years of teaching and research experience. He had been the Vice President of the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding during 2020 to 2022 at national level. He has developed many crop varieties and five of them have been released/ notified by the Govt. of India and many rice varieties are in the pipeline of release. He has authored more than 130 research publications in the journals of repute. Dr. Jiban Shrestha is presently working as a scientist at Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), National Plant Breeding and Genetics Research Centre (NPBGRC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal. He is a plant breeder and is currently working in rice and maize breeding works. He has published more than 300 journal articles and 5 books. He has been editing/reviewing articles for internationally reputed publishers. Till date he has reviewed more than 550 articles and edited more than 150 articles for renowned journals. He has provided scientific article writing and data analysis training to students and researchers at national and international universities.

• 1. Climate change impact on rice production and breeding for climate resilient rice.- 2. Untapped rice genetic resources and pre-breeding in genomics era.- 3. Conservation and development of rice germplasm for Natural Farming.- 4. Doubled haploid rice breeding.- 5. Marker assisted breeding for rice improvement.- 6. Genome assisted breeding and genome-wide association studies for rice improvement.- 7. Haplotype-assisted breeding in rice.- 8. Genomic selection for phenotype prediction in rice.- 9. Genome editing for trait-specific improvement in rice.- 10. High throughput phenotyping enabled rice improvement.- 11. Artificial intelligence and machine learning for rice improvement.- 12. Fast forward breeding in rice.- 13. Application of next generation sequencing technology for rice improvement.- 14. Regulatory Framework Of Plant Variety Protection For Modernized Plant Breeding Approaches.