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Hari D. Upadhyaya, Principal Scientist (Groundnut) and head of gene bank at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics has received the Crop Science Research Award from the Crop Science Society of America.
He received the award at the society’s annual meeting held at Tampa in Florida (the USA) recently. He received the award for his “significant and original basic and applied research contributions in crop science and total impact of contributions on crop science”, an Icrisat statement said here on Thursday.
Upadhyaya is a practical plant breeder and has developed a large number of early-maturing, high-yielding, drought tolerant, and aflatoxin contamination resistant groundnut breeding lines.
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