Rakesh K Srivastava

Rakesh K Srivastava is a Senior Scientist of Chickpea Genomics & Trait Discovery at ICRISAT. Rakesh has worked in the field of plant breeding and biotechnology for over 20 years. Rakesh K Srivastava has a rich experience in both public and private sectors. Rakesh has worked as a breeder/biotechnologist with Syngenta and ICRISAT-Patancheru. Rakesh's work focuses on the development and application of molecular markers for plant breeding, crop improvement and genomics.

Their manager is Rajeev K Varshney, Research Program Director, Genetic gains. Rakesh K Srivastava works with Prasad Bajaj - Manager, Computational Biology, Annapurna Chitikineni - Cluster Leader, Sequencing & Genomics Services Senior Manager, and Rachit Kumar Saxena - Senior Scientist, Applied Genomics.