Professor

Rajeev Varshney

FAA FRS

Rajeev Varshney
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Professor Rajeev Varshney has been instrumental in developing and applying large-scale genomic resources in crop improvement. He has decoded the genomes of over a dozen crops, developed diversity, haplotype catalogues and pangenomes, identified genes for numerous agronomic traits, developed over 20 climate-resilient and high-yielding crop varieties, and trained over 450 scientists. Recently, Professor Varshney developed genome assemblies for 15 Australian chickpea varieties and ten Australian varieties of five horticultural crops and generated whole-genome resequencing data for >300 wheat lines for developing the pangenome of Australian wheat, positively impacting broadacre and horticultural crop industries in Australia.

Fields of research

30 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES
  • 3001 AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS
  • 3108 PLANT BIOLOGY

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Biotechnology
  • Crop Yields
  • Genomics
  • Agricultural Science
  • Crop Improvement
  • Crop Science
  • Wheat Breeding
  • Drought Resistant Crops
  • Plant Biology
  • Legumes
  • Wheat Genetics
  • Plant Breeding
  • Horticultural crops
  • Capacity Building

Please contact fellowship@science.org.au to request any updates to the data.