Below are the recipients of the 2012 Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program scholarships. The winners of the scholarships from 2009-2012 can be found in the map below.
Wheat
Liang Yong (China)—Identification and application of powdery mildew and stripe rust resistance genes from wild emmer to improve disease resistance in wheat
Bharath Reddy (India)—Enhancing yield potential of hard red winter wheat via use of improved synthetic backcrosses
Navdeep Jamwal (India)—High resolution mapping of chromosome elimination approach-mediated rye (Secale cereale) chromatin introgressed bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) recombinants for drought tolerance and rust resistance through molecular cytogenetic techniques
Jafar Jafarzadeh (Iran)—Determining the breeding value of primary synthetic breadwheats for increased grain yield
Francisco Chavez (Mexico)—Identifying traits and developing genetic sources for increased lodging resistance in elite high yielding wheat cultivars
Mahbubjon Rahmatov (Tajikistan)—Genetic characterization of novel resistance alleles to yellow rust and stem rust in wheat-rye, wheat-Leymus and wheat-Thinopyrum alien translocation lines
Jared Crain (United States)—High-throughput phenotypic characterization and QTL analysis of stress adaptive traits in wheat
Sarah Battenfield (United States)—Association analysis and genomic selection modeling and end-use quality traits in CIMMYT spring wheat
Rice
Shanshan Liang (China)—Association analysis of rice yield in irrigated ecosystem: Effectiveness of fine‐ mapped and cloned yield related QTLs/Genes, identification of new marker‐trait associations and efficiency of genomic selection
Yanru Cui (China)—Developing drought and salinity tolerant cultivars for South China and South/Southeast Asia by designed QTL pyramiding
Amandeep Kaur, (India)—Evaluating wild species germplasm for variation in activity of bran lipase (RBL)
Bharathi Ramadoss (India)—Allele mining through eco-tilling for low glycemic index rice
Eakpol Phuvanatnarubal (Thailand)—Breeding-by-design: New submergence tolerance rice for prolong flash flooding environment
Daniel Caddell (United States)—A network-guided approach for improving rice tolerance to biotic stress
