Institute for Agri-Food Research and Innovation

Staff Profile

Ankush Prashar

The aim of my current research is to understand the adaptive responses to stress in crops and deliver knowledge and tools to aid breeding for increased resilience to environmental stress conditions. This involves developing high throughput technology and methodology for phenotyping using imaging sensors and use these to fully exploit our ability to perform high throughput genotypic analysis. Thus my research work targets to bridge the gap between genetics and physiology. While understanding the genetic control of for plant stress, this will also allow us to build towards sustainable agriculture and application in precision farming.