Amitha Cr Mithra

Biography

She is currently working as a Scientist in ICAR - National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, India.

Research Interest

Drought stress studies in rice to identify genes and QTLs that govern tolerance using different approaches such as structured esp, bi-parental and multi-parental mapping populations and genome-wide association mapping, integrating eQTLs with  phenotyping; development and use of SNP markers or assays for mapping traits in rice and other mandate crops of the institute; use of EMS mutant resources for functional genomics in rice; structural genomics in crop plants