Aditya PratapDr. Aditya Pratap, born on October 18, 1976, is working as Principal Scientist in the Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur (IIPR). Holding a brilliant academic and service record, he has worked on genetic improvment of crop plants including Vigna species, wheat, triticale, rapeseed-mustard and chickpea. He has been associated with the development and release of 14 crop varieties including 9 in green gram, 1 in chickpea, 3 in rapeseed-mustard and one in facultative winter wheat including world's first earliest variety of mungbean, Virat, which matures in 52-55 days. He has executed several national and international collaborative projects as a team leader and successfully established the "International Mung bean Improvement Network" along with several international partners. To his credit, he has >190 publications including research papers in several high-impact journals. He has edited 6 books published by Springer, CABI and Elsevier. His research interests include distant hybridization, doubled haploidy breeding, plant tissue culture and molecular breeding. He is the recipient of the prestigious Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship, USA and also the ICAR-Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award. The mung bean improvement programme led by him at the IIPR has won him the Best Centre Award 2018. He is on board several reputed international research journals including Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Genetics, PLOS One, BMC Plant Biology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution besides being the General Secretary of the Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development. Read More Read Less