Rashmi Rekha Boruah
Assam Agricultural University, India.
Biography
Rashmi Rekha Boruah has completed her PhD in Department of Agricultural Biotechnology at Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India in 2017. During her PhD, she was accepted as a Visiting Scientist at CSIRO, Canberra, where she conducted research on transgenic chickpea for insect resistance from 2014-2016. She returned to India and conducted research on endophytes with potential acaricidal properties from Datura and Argemone in the DBT-AAU Centre, Assam Agricultural University. She has also published papers in the Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding for her research on transgenic chickpeas resistant to the pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera.