S Prakash Tiwari
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- Biotechnologist
- Geneticist
- Agriculturalist
S Prakash Tiwari | |
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.jpg) Tiwari in 2005 | |
| Born | 14 November 1948 |
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| Years active | Since 1978 |
| Known for | Agricultural research |
S Prakash Tiwari is an Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, agriculturalist and a former Deputy Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).[1][2] He was Vice-Chancellor of Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner,[3][4] and Director of National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM), Hyderabad.[5] He is also a former director of National Research Centre on Soybean, Indore.[6]
Tiwari was born in Jabalpur and obtained his PhD in genetics from Indian Agriculture Research Institute and further completed postdoc from National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, UK.[7]
Career
Tiwari created a rapid method for plant anatomy using fluorescence microscopy in 1986.[8] He is known for this work on soybean and identifying characteristic of pod anatomy associated with resistance to pod-shattering in soybean.[9][10][11]
In 2005, Tiwari served as member of Exim Committee.[12]
Tiwari is currently in the Advisory Committee of Society for Soybean Research and Development.[13] He was instrumental in preparing an in-depth report on the state of plant genetic resources available for food and agriculture for the FAO (United Nations).[14]
Tiwari served as chairman, Research Advisory Committee of Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Indore from 2016 to 2019.[15][16][17] He served as Chairman of the National Biodiversity Authority under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and climate change, Government of India, Expert Committee on Normally Traded Commodities from 2005 to 2007.[18] He also served as board member of Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, from 2005 to 2008.[19]
Considering the importance of pulses in meeting the dietary requirements of a growing number of vegetarians, an initiative led by Tiwari focused on developing new cropping systems for pulses.[20][21]
