TILLING and Eco-TILLING for Crop Improvement

Dr. Anjanabha Bhattacharya is working as a Group leader (Tech) with Mahyco since 2012. He is also an elected member of the prestigious PTCA-I (Plant tissue culture association of India). His areas of research expertise include TILLING, Eco-TILLING, crop improvement through physical and chemical mutagenesis, laboratory stewardship, and tissue culture-assisted technologies including double haploids for about two decades. He is also an active business excellence practitioner and worked with an agri-start-up for two years. He obtained his PhD from The University of Nottingham, England, and undertook post-doctoral training from The University of Georgia, Tifton, USA.Dr. Vilas Parkhi is a seasoned plant biotechnologist, who has exposure to various fields of plant biotechnology research on the platform of academic and industrial setup. He is an alumnus of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines; Texas A & M University, TX, USA and Pune University, India.  Currently, he is engaged in the research area of genome editing of crops and transgenic trait development at Mahyco Pvt Ltd, Jalna India. Dr. Bharat Char is the Chief Science Officer (CSO) at Mahyco. He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California Medical School, Los Angeles, and undertook postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, in plant molecular genetics. He has served as a member of the International Seed Federation Working Group on GM Vegetables.

• 1. TILLING in the era of precise genome editing.- 2. Induced mutagenesis.- 3. Bioinformatics and candidate gene mining for TILLING.- 4. Next generation mutation detection techniques in crops.- 5. TILLING by sequencing.- 6. Advances in Eco-TILLING.- 7. Mutagenesis in somatic tissues.- 8. Forward genetics: Phenomics and trait selection.- 9. Towards development of climate resilient crops.- 10. Future of TILLING in  plant breeding.- 11. Perception of food crops developed by mutagenesis among various stakeholders.