Nilamani Dikshit

Nilamani Dikshit currently works at the ICAR- Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institure, Jhansi, India. Earlier, he had worked on Plant Genetic Resources of tropical and Semi-arid ecosystem of India while working at ICAR-NBPGR for more than 32 years. His main interests are collection, characterisation, identification of trait specific germplasm and conservation of valuable germplasm. Contributed significantly in collecting land races of rice, nutri-cereals, pulses ( grass pea, horse gram, chick pea), vegetables (okra), M& AP and wild relatives of crop plants. His main research interests are analysing diversity in forage genetic resources particularly Guinea grass, Berseem, Sorghum , Deenanath grass etc.