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.