A University of Sydney scholarship student, originally from rural Vietnam, has made a research breakthrough that could help protect crops from disease.As a PhD student, Dr Hoan Dinh found and defined the sequence of an important gene underlying leaf
Mexican authorities and international researchers pay tribute to World Food Prize Laureate and former CIMMYT wheat scientist Sanjaya Rajaram at the CIMMYT experimental station in Toluca that will bear his name.
Classical singer Prabha Atre and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh (posthumous) were presented Padma Vibhushan; actor Victor Banerjee, scientist Sanjaya Rajaram (posthumous), author Pratibha Ray and Sanskrit scholar Acharya .
Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, World Food Prize winner and former scientist of ICARDA and CIMMYT was awarded the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of the Republic of India. The Padma Bhushan is India’s third highest civilian honor, awarded to those who have displayed “distinguished service of a high order”. Dr. Rajaram joins the rank of nearly 1300 unique individuals who were honored for their exemplary achievements since the launch of the Padma Bhushan in 1954.