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Apichart Vanavichit

Director, Rice Gene Discovery and Rice Science Center, Kasetsart University, Thailand

Apichart Vanavichit

B.Sc in Agriculture (1978) and M.Sc (1981) in Plant Breeding, Kasetart Univesity, Ph.D. in Crop Science, Oregon State University, Post-doctoral, Molecular Biology, University of Georgia. Currently as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, 1980. Also served as director of Rice Gene Discovery and Rice Science Center. Received the National Distinguished Researcher Award from National Research Council, Thailand, in 2006. As the national key laboratory in the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP). Specialist in rice functional genomics applied to rice molecular breeding. Received the US patent on ' Transgenic rice plant with reduced expresssion of Os2AP and elevated levels of 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline'. Released new Jasmine rice varieties for resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses. Also new rice released wit for high nutritional value.

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