The Coconut Genome / Compendium of Plant Genomes (PDF)

Research Institute of Sri Lanka (CRI) since 1990, and currently serves as Institute's Additional Director. He was the former Deputy Director (Research) and the former Head of the Genetics and Plant Breeding Division of the CRI. He was the former Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Coconut Genetic Resecures Network (COGENT) and currently a member of the Technical Working Group of the International Coconut Community (ICC). His research work has earned him numerous awards including the Presidential Research Award (Sri Lanka), Endeavor Research Fellowship (Australia), Scholarship from Commonwealth Universities to pursue his PhD in UK and Visiting Scientist Fellowship (FAO). He has authored and co-authored close to 100 publications, book chapters, scientific communications, and conference/workshop proceedings.




Prof. Chittaranjan Kole is an internationally acclaimed scientist with an illustrious professional career of spanning over thirty-six years and original contributions in the fields of plant genomics, biotechnology and molecular breeding leading to the publication of more than 150 quality research articles and reviews. He has edited over 130 books and his contributions and editing acumen have been appreciated by seven Nobel Laureates including Profs. Norman Borlaug, Arthur Kornberg, Werner Arber, Phillip Sharp, Günter Blobel, Lee Hartwell and Roger Kornberg. He has been honored with a number of Fellowships, national and international awards including the Outstanding Crop Scientist Award conferred by the International Crop Science Society. He has served in the academia as Vice-Chancellor BC Agricultural University, Project Coordinator of Indo-Russian Center of Biotechnology in India, Director of Research of Institute of Nutraceutical Research of Clemson University, USA and as a Visiting Professor in the Pennsylvania State University and Clemson University, USA. In the recent past, he was awarded with the Raja Ramanna Fellow by the Department of Energy, Government of India. He holds the Presidentship of International Climate-Resilient Crop Genomics Consortium and International Phytomedomics and Nutriomics Consortium.