User:Dinakaranelango

Elango Dinakaran is a plant breeder currently working as Scientic officer- Sorghum Breeding at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India.

Dinakaran has over 3.5 years research experience in the area of plant breeding and crop biotechnology. He has interest in development of sorghum hybrids both for sub-saharan africa and south asia of the semi-arid tropics.

He received his Bachelor degree (B.Sc.) in Agriculture and Masters degree in Plant Breeding and Genetics from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in 2005 and 2008 respectively. Subsequently, he joined the laboratory of Professor J.R Kannan Bapu at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore to work on a Chickpea Biotechnology Project sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. Later on he worked as a Research Associate around a year in Hybrid Rice Breeding at Pioneer Overseas Corporation, Hyderabad.