LPU MSc Agri student bags Rs 1.3 crore scholarship to pursue PhD at Australian National University
Representative ImageJALANDHAR: Sumant Bindal, M.Sc. Agriculture (Genetics & Plant Breeding) student of Lovely Professional University, has bagged a fully-paid scholarship worth Rs. 1.3 Crores for studying PhD in Plant Sciences at the prestigious Australian National University (ANU). The University has said that it is perhaps the biggest scholarship ever bagged by an agriculture student in India.
The PhD programme at ANU will commence from September 28th, 2020 and Sumant’s topic of research would be ‘Identification of signaling pathways activated by resistant genes against Fusarium wilt in tomato’. His research would focus on how to make tomatoes completely resistant to Fusarium wilt, a plant fungus that infects tomatoes worldwide.
Last year, when he was in the second year of his M.Sc., Sumant had also got an opportunity to intern at the globally renowned World Vegetable Center in Taiwan which was fully funded by the Taiwan government. Sumant was one of the 15 Masters’ students from across the world who were chosen for this fellowship.
“ANU is one of the leading research institutions in the world and a dream destination for me to pursue my PhD there,” Sumant said.
The PhD programme at ANU will commence from September 28th, 2020 and Sumant’s topic of research would be ‘Identification of signaling pathways activated by resistant genes against Fusarium wilt in tomato’. His research would focus on how to make tomatoes completely resistant to Fusarium wilt, a plant fungus that infects tomatoes worldwide.
Last year, when he was in the second year of his M.Sc., Sumant had also got an opportunity to intern at the globally renowned World Vegetable Center in Taiwan which was fully funded by the Taiwan government. Sumant was one of the 15 Masters’ students from across the world who were chosen for this fellowship.
“ANU is one of the leading research institutions in the world and a dream destination for me to pursue my PhD there,” Sumant said.
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