Sripada Udupa is a senior scientist (biotechnology) with over 25 years of experience using genomics and biotechnology tools for crop improvement. He helped to establish ICARDA’s biotechnology research and laboratory, and has been working with ICARDA in Morocco since 2006. He has authored more than 100 publications, including peer-reviewed journals, proceedings, and book chapters.
Udupa has developed strong partnerships with universities and national research systems in the Near East and North Africa regions, and with research institutions in North America and Europe. To support the genotyping of gene bank accessions, he is helping to assess diversity and to mine genetic resources for adaptive traits.
Udupa is contributing to the integration of doubled haploids technology and molecular marker tools to speed up varietal development in wheat and barley. Previously, he also worked on microsatellite marker development used in genetic mapping and analyzed the genetic diversity of chickpeas and lentils.
Sripada Udupa's Publications
Assessing the Opportunities and Risks of DUS and VCU Variety Testing for Sustainable Production through SWOT Analysis Results
Resistance of Moroccan Wheat Lines Against the Root-Lesion Nematode Pratylenchus Thornei
Novel Genomic Regions Linked to Ascochyta Blight Resistance in Two Differentially Resistant Cultivars of Chickpea
Pathogen diversity and mating types of Didymella rabiei isolates collected from Morocco
Genetic diversity and structure of a barley collection predominatly from North African region
Assessment of Genetic Diversity and Symbiotic Efficiency of Selected Rhizobia Strains Nodulating Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)
The Global Durum Wheat Panel (GDP): An International Platform to Identify and Exchange Beneficial Alleles
Intra-cultivar variability at microsatellite loci in date palm cultivars across the GCC countries
Wheat performance with subclover living mulch in different agro-environmental conditions depends on crop management
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of cotyledonary node of Vicia faba L.
Genetic diversity of on-farm selected olive trees in Moroccan traditional olive orchards
Development of 1000 Microsatellite Markers across the Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Genome
Phenotypic and genetic diversity in Sinorhizobium meliloti and S. medicae from drought and salt affected regions of Morocco
SuperSAGE: the drought stress-responsive transcriptome of chickpea roots
Genetic structure, diversity, and allelic richness in composite collection and reference set in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Genetic diversity of Rhynchosporium secalis in Tunisia as revealed by pathotype, AFLP, and microsatellite analyses
