Bio
Virupaksh U. Patil is working as scientist at Division of Crop Improvement, Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla 171001 since 2009. He has done under-graduation (Agriculture) and post graduation (Plant Biotechnology) from UAS, Dharwad and UAS, Bangalore with gold medal. Joined Agriculture Research Service (ARS) in 2009. He is specialized in Genomics and Molecular biology and is involved in genome sequencing of Potato and many bacterial and fungal pathogens of potato like Phytophthora infestans, Fusarium sambucinum, Ralstonia solanacearum, Rhizoctonia solanacearum etc. Has the credit of publishing many research papers in international reputed journal including Nature. Has also written three book chapters and many popular articles.