Research structure to achieve R4D ??? CROPs PHYSIOLOGY TEAM @ICRISAT
SOCIO-ECONOMICS Production VALUE Grain Yield Conversion into biomass Madina, Dharani & partners Michael & partners Applied RESEARCH Roger, Ramilan & partners SYSTEMS MODELLING Conversion into biomass & yield Water&Nutrients SOCIO-ECONOMICS Keerthi, Saikat & partners Production VALUE HT-SCREENING Grain Yield Grain Number Grain Size & N Biomass RADN TE T RUE Rint vpd kl LAI SLN Roots k N LNo A >A “breeders” “breeders” Basic RESEARCH Siva, Tharanya, Pushpa, Purush, Sunita, Karthika, Srikanth & partners Molecular mechanisms Sudhakar & partners
Thank you R4D requires multidisciplinary structure! Bioinformatists Technology developers Physiologists Breeders Modelers Socioeconomists Nutritionists Mission To reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics Thank you