ICRISAT Archival Report 2006 - The seedlings of success in the ...

Invited Seminars:
Vadez V, Hash CT, Rizvi SMH, Bidinger FR, Banttee K, Sharma KK, DEVI MJ, BHATNAGAR-
MATHUR P, Kashiwagi J, Krishnamurthy L, Hoisington D, Varshney RK, Gaur PM, Nigam SN, ARUNA
R and Upadhyaya HD. 2006. What is the scope for molecular breeding and genetic engineering to improve
crops’ drought tolerance? Proceeding of the 4th Biovision Conference, Alexandria 26-29 April 2006.
Vadez V, Hoisington DA, Upadhyaya HD, Hash CT, Varshney RK, Gaur PM and Nigam S. 2006.
Conventional and Molecular approaches to assess abiotic stress tolerance. Annual Planning and Review
Meeting, AVRDC Headquarter, Kao Siung, Taiwan, 20-22 November 2006.
Vadez V, Krishnamurthy L, Gaur PM, Upadhyaya HD, Hoisington DA and Varshney RK. 2006. Genetic
variability for salinity tolerance in chickpea. Paper presented in the 3rd International Conference on Legume
Genomics & Genetics held in Brisbane, Australia on 9-13 April 2006.
Vadez V, Krishnamurthy L, Gaur PM, Upadhyaya HD, Hoisington DA, Varshney RK, Turner NC, and
Siddique KHM. 2006. Tapping the large genetic variability for salinity tolerance in chickpea. In Proceedings
of 13 th Australian Society of Agronomy Conference, 10-14 September 2006, Perth, Australia.
http://www.regional.org.au/au/asa/2006/concurrent/environment/4561_vadez.htm.
Varshney RK and Hoisington DA. 2006. Functional molecular markers for plant breeding in National
Training Course on “Molecular markers and transgenics for precision in breeding”, Directorate of Rice
Research (DRR), Hyderabad, India, March 20-29, 2006.
Varshney RK and Hoisington DA. 2006. Genomics strategies for crop improvement in semi-arid tropics:
introduction and prospects. Vavilov Seminar, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK),
Gatersleben, Germany, January 20, 2006.
Varshney RK and Hoisington DA. 2006. International agricultural research centre on genomics and plant
breeding. In: Using Molecular Markers for Improving the Efficiency of Plant Breeding in Sri Lanka, Sri
Lanka Council of Agricultural Research Policy, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 6-8, 2006
(presentation was sent by mail).
Varshney RK, Hash CT and Hoisington DA. 2006. Applied genomics research at ICRISAT. International
Center for Genetic, Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) Group Meeting, 5 October 2006, ICRISAT,
Patancheru, India.
Varshney RK, Hoisington D, Upadhyaya HD, Vadez V, Gaur PM, Dwivedi S, ARUNA R, Kashiwagi J,
BHATTACHARJEE R, Nigam SN, BALAJI J and Chandra S. 2006. Improvement of water-stress tolerance
in chickpea and peanut: applications and potential of genomic and physiological approaches. IX European
Society for Agronomy Congress, Warsaw, Poland, September 4-7, 2006.
Varshney RK, Hoisington DA and Graner A. 2006. Functional molecular markers for plant breeding.
University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India, May 12, 2006.
Varshney RK, Hoisington DA and Graner A. 2006. Genomic strategies for studying drought tolerance:
results from barley and applications to crops in the semi-arid tropics. Plenary lecture in International
Symposium on Frontiers in Genetics and Biotechnology- Retrospect and Prospect, Osmania University,
Hyderabad, India, January 8-10, 2006.
Varshney RK, Hoisington DA and Graner A. 2006. Genomics-assisted breeding for crop improvement. In:
National Training Programme on Methods in Molecular Ecology”, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and
Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad, India, September 18-30, 2006.
Varshney RK, Hoisington DA and Graner A. 2006. Genomics-assisted breeding for crop improvement. In:
Using Molecular Markers for Improving the Efficiency of Plant Breeding in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Council of
Agricultural Research Policy, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 6-8, 2006 (presentation was sent
by mail).
Varshney RK, Hoisington DA and JAYASHREE B. 2006. Progress on identification of orthologous
candidate gene sets for DREB1A and DREB2a at ICRISAT. ADOC Workshop, CIRAD Montpellier, France,
March 20-22, 2006.
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