Dr. Hari Upadhyaya, head of Genebank at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat), was recently conferred the 2013 Frank N Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources Award by the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) at its annual meeting held in Tampa, Florida.
In his award lecture on “Crop germplasm to overcome challenges to global food and nutritional security,” Upadhyaya emphasized on how large germplasm collections can meet the food and nutritional needs of the ever increasing world population, which would be over nine billion by 2050, requiring an over 70-percent increase in food production.
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