IISER Bhopal unveils turmeric genome for the first time in the world

IISER Bhopal researchers have unveiled the genome of turmeric for the first time ever in the world.

A team of IISER Bhopal researchers, led by Dr Vineet K Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, have sequenced the genome of the turmeric plant for the first time in the world.

The results of their path-breaking work have recently been published in a journal belonging to the prestigious Nature group Communications Biology. The paper has been co-authored by Abhisek Chakraborty, Shruti Mahajan, Shubham K Jaiswal and Dr Vineet K Sharma of IISER Bhopal.