Prof Rattan Yadav
PhD

Professor of Plant Genetics
Contact Details
- Email: rsy@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-6132-4541
- Office: 48, Plas Gogerddan
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 823174
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=qBE7NZAAAAAJ
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Dr. Rattan Yadav is a Professor of Plant Genetics and holds a personal chair at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) of the Aberystwyth University. He received his DPhil degree from the University of Sussex and subsequently undertook post-doctoral research at International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Philippines before coming to Aberystwyth in 1996.
Teaching
Lecturer
Tutor
BRM3920: Crop Genomics and Genetic Engineering
BRM0700 - Current Topics in Biotechnology
Research
Professor Yadav's research focusses on capturing naturally occurring genetic variations present in crops germplasm for 'public good' outcomes. To realise such interests, he has developed unique genetic resources (genetic maps, markers, mapping populations, germplasm populations) and has pioneered their uses in complex traits dissections and breeding using marker assisted selection. He collaborates extensively, across the globe, with academics, industry partners and ‘not for profit’ inter-governmental organisations and has developed genetic technologies and crops varieties that are successfully adopted across south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Yadav's latest research focusses on capturing genetic variations of nutritional traits in global millets germplasm and develop ways of breeding them in to staple crops varieties for contorting diet related illnesses such as type-2 diabetes and obesity in a cost-effective manner.
Professor Yadav involves in a number of activities externally, for example, he
Research Groups
- Forage Crops