Dr Ankush Prashar
Lecturer
ankush.prashar@ncl.ac.uk
New Castle University
United Kingdom
Biography
Ankush Prashar’s education and career thus far has been focussed on genetics and breeding for plant stress related traits. He graduated from the Punjab Agricultural University with a BSc in Agriculture (Hons in Soils Science), completed an MSc in Applied Genetics and PhD in Quantitative genetics and functional genomics from University of Birmingham. During his postdoctoral position at Cardiff University he worked on genetics of optical traits and 3D imaging in Avian model. In his previous job as Geneticist at The James Hutton Institute (previously Scottish Crop Research Institute), he was involved in developing tools and techniques for high throughput phenotyping to map stress traits in potato and soft fruit and associate these with high throughput genotyping.
Research Interest
High throughput Phenotyping methods using visual, multi and hyperspectral imaging tools. Bridging gap between high throughput approaches (link with genetics and genomics) Stress monitoring and crop management Understanding adaptive response to plant stress Modelling interactions GxExM by understanding diversity and link with commercially important traits Breeding strategies and crop improvement
Publications
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Chen YP, Prashar A, Erichsen JT, To CH, Hocking PM, Guggenheim JA. Heritability of ocular component dimensions in chickens: genetic variants controlling susceptibility to experimentally induced myopia and pretreatment eye size are distinct. Investigative Opthalmology and Visual Science 2011, 52, 4012-4020.
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Prashar A, Jones HG. Infra-red thermography as a high throughput tool for phenotyping. Agronomy 2014, 4(3), 397-417.
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Prashar A, Hornyik C, Young V, McLean K, Sharma SK, Dale MFB, Bryan GJ. Construction of a dense SNP map of a highly heterozygous diploid potato population and QTL analysis of tuber shape and eye depth. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 2014, 127, 2159.
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Obidiegwu JE, Bryan GJ, Jones HG, Prashar A. Coping with drought: stress and adaptive responses in potato and perspectives for improvement. Frontiers in Plant Science 2015, 6, 542.
