FP5-3.6 - Develop gene editing tools and platforms in sorghum and chickpea

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals - GLDC

Overview: FP5-3.6 - Develop gene editing tools and platforms in sorghum and chickpea

FP5-3.5 - FP5-3.7

Leader: Pooja Bhatnagar - Mathur, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT
Coleader: Kiran Sharma, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT

Team members: 4
Partner organizations: 1

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Outputs: 1

Activity/Product Description

Crop specific simple and polycistronic constructs developed with selected combinations of sgRNA and Cas9 components will be developed for chickpea and sorghum.

Atlas

Outputs

Code	Type	Output Name	Leader	Co-leader	Deliverables	Commodity	View
FP5-3.6.1		Gene editing methods and pipelines streamlined in chickpea and sorghum	Pooja Bhatnagar - Mathur	Kiran Sharma	1	Sorghum, Pearl millet, Chickpea

Personnel Involved

Aladdin Hamwieh
Acting - Regional Coordinator-Nile Valley & Red Sea and Chickpea Breeder/Bio technologist

Damaris Achieng Odeny
Theme Leader Biotechnology (ESA)

Kiran Sharma

Pooja Bhatnagar - Mathur
Principal Scientist ( Cell, Molecular biology and Genetic Engineering)

Key Results

Blog Outcome Impact Case Report Policy

Innovations

Genome editing platform for sorghum

Reporting year: 2019

Partners

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals - GLDC

Overview: FP5-3.6 - Develop gene editing tools and platforms in sorghum and chickpea

FP5-3.5 - FP5-3.7

Leader: Pooja Bhatnagar - Mathur, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT Coleader: Kiran Sharma, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT

Team members: 4 Partner organizations: 1

Budget 2025USD : 0