Capability Statement 2023
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ICRISAT Capability Statement 2022
Research Specialities
As an international knowledge leader in dryland agri-food systems, our scientific expertise and non-partisan approach is
globally recognized as having produced world firsts and resulted in some of the most innovative solutions to overcoming
hunger, poverty, malnutrition and environmental degradation.
ICRISAT’s research impacts span the entire value chain:
Germplasm, pre-breeding,
breeding and seed systems
Enriching cultivated crop gene pool
diversity by utilizing distantly related
germplasm such as exotic landraces
and crop wild accessions.
Introgression of genes/quantitative
trait loci (QTLs) to enhance
productivity, biotic and abiotic stress
tolerances, nutrition and climate
resilience.
Identifying consumer-preferred and
demand-driven traits to develop
crop product profiles for targeted
breeding.
Optimizing and deploying novel
breeding methods to develop
superior varieties and adopting speed
breeding technology/rapid generation
advancement technology.
Working with national partners
to release improved varieties and
developing and evaluating more
efficient and cost-effective seed
supply options through better
institutional arrangements.
Genomics, systems biology
and crop informatics
Developing genomic resources, low-
cost genotyping technologies and
decision support tools.
Identifying valuable and novel alleles
and haplotypes with traits for climate
resilience, nutrition, and consumer
preferences.
Multi-omics approaches to
understanding the mechanisms of
complex traits for crop breeding.
Machine learning to integrate data
from multiple sources to develop
predictive models.
Genome editing and
molecular biology
Genome edited approaches and
gene editing for intractable traits in
ICRISAT’s mandate crops.
Developing protocols for generating
double haploids and other new
breeding tools and technologies.
Crop physiology, crop
protection and modelling
The use of modelling tools
and precise, high-throughput
phenotyping to identify drought
and heat tolerance traits to assist in
breeding for difficult environments
and future climate predictions.
New, innovative and environment-
friendly methods for crop protection,
including the use of non-invasive
techniques for phenotyping and the
application of nanomaterials.
Tracking the emergence of new
diseases and pathogen variability for
existing and emerging diseases.
Enabling modelling tools to assess
cropping system productivity under a
variety of conditions.
Socioeconomics
System dynamics modelling to
analyze food chain complexity,
mapping and assessing efficiencies
in agricultural value chains/web
and understanding the behavioral
dimensions of the dynamic linkages
between agri-food value chains and
nutrition.
Ex-ante assessments and scenario
development to estimate the
economic and other value of future
and emerging crop traits linked
to market demand for breeding
prioritization.
Studying value chain and food
systems to support biofortification
and the integration of emerging
high value traits (e.g. high-oleic acid
groundnut) through demand creation
and value chain development.
Studying developing markets and
institutions for a more productive
agriculture sector.
Systems-based sustainable
natural resource management
Watershed and community-based
approaches to scaling water
harvesting, land restoration and
livelihood interventions.
Scaling climate-smart agricultural
interventions linked to climate risk
assessments.
System behaviour predictions and
designing appropriate interventions
to increase crop quantity and quality.
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