The Mulberry Genome

Dr Belaghihalli N. Gnanesh is working as a Professor and Dean at Sampoorna International Institute of Agricultural Science and Horticultural Technology, Maddur, Karnataka recognized by the University of Mysore, India. He has extensive research experience in the field of germplasm resources, genomics, and disease-resistant breeding. He has worked with Agriculture Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Winnipeg as a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Visiting Fellow on marker development and molecular breeding of oats and also worked at the University of Manitoba, Canada on canola blackleg disease resistance. He has been awarded the prestigious Science and Engineering Research Board, Ramanujan fellowship, instituted by the Government of India. His major focus at Central Sericultural Research Training Institute, Mysore was on mulberry transcriptomes, genome sequencing, SNP discovery, linkage mapping, and molecular identification of Fusarium species complex associated with root rot of mulberry. He has published more than 40 quality research articles and several book chapters.

Dr Kunjupullai Vijayan is a renowned research scientist with extensive experience in plant breeding, genetics, cytogenetics, molecular phylogeny, genomics, tissue culture and germplasm development. He has more than 35 years of research experience in national and international Research Institutes. His research findings have been published in more than 130 National and international journals, proceedings, and book publications. He worked at Central Silk Board as a senior scientist and at Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate. He is an expert on genomic relationships of the genus Morus. He has collaborated with many mulberry researchers around the world. He has been involved in the development of several mulberry varieties suitable for different agro-climatic conditions. He has also worked out, for the first time, a very comprehensive phylogeny of the genus Camellia.

Dr. Belaghihalli N. Gnanesh 目前擔任印度卡納塔克邦馬杜爾的 Sampoorna International Institute of Agricultural Science and Horticultural Technology 的教授及院長，該機構獲得了邁索爾大學的認可。他在種質資源、基因組學和抗病育種領域擁有豐富的研究經驗。他曾在加拿大農業食品部（Agriculture Agri-Food Canada, AAFC）溫尼伯擔任自然科學與工程研究委員會（Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, NSERC）訪問學者，專注於燕麥的標記開發和分子育種，並在加拿大曼尼托巴大學研究油菜黑腹果病的抗性。他獲得了印度政府頒發的著名科學與工程研究委員會 Ramanujan 獎學金。他在邁索爾的中央養蠶研究訓練所的主要研究重點是對桑樹轉錄組、基因組測序、SNP 發現、連鎖圖譜及與桑樹根腐病相關的 Fusarium 物種複合體的分子鑑定。他已發表超過 40 篇高品質的研究文章及數個書籍章節。

Dr. Kunjupullai Vijayan 是一位著名的研究科學家，擁有豐富的植物育種、遺傳學、細胞遺傳學、分子系統發生學、基因組學、組織培養和種質開發的經驗。他在國內外研究機構擁有超過 35 年的研究經驗。他的研究成果已發表在超過 130 本國內外期刊、會議論文及書籍中。他曾在中央絲綢委員會擔任高級科學家，並在台灣中央研究院植物與微生物生物學研究所擔任博士後研究助理。他是 Morus 屬的基因組關係專家，並與全球多位桑樹研究者合作。他參與了多個適合不同農氣候條件的桑樹品種的開發。此外，他還首次研究了 Camellia 屬的非常全面的系統發生學。