Aakash Chawade

Ongoing research projects involve cereal crops, potato, sugar beet, faba bean and peas. We are developing methods for low cost genomic selection in cereals, peas and sugar beet in close collaboration with breeding programs in Sweden and in Bangladesh and Zambia in collaboration with CIMMYT. In wheat, we are developing genetic markers for the diseases yellow rust, Fusarium head blight and Septoria tritici blotch resistance. In barley we are studying resistance to economically important diseases, tolerance to abiotic stresses and traits suitable for Northern latitudes.  Additionally, we are developing methods for high-throughput phenotyping and machine learning. These techniques generate large amount of data requiring software pipelines for efficient data processing and analysis. Thus, we are developing open source software for efficient data analysis. We work in close collaboration with stakeholders.