Brighton Gapare

PhD Candidate

Email: brighton.gapare@nottingham.ac.uk

Brighton is a PhD candidate in the International Agriculture DTP.

Brighton’s PhD research is entitled ‘Exploring genetic diversity in grain structure, composition and functionality of pearl millet germplasm’. He is working towards understanding the impact this has on food and beverage processing and nutritional quality. 

 

His research will result in the identification of promising lines and genes associated with desirable compositional, functional, and structural traits for use in crop improvement programmes and novel applications by breeders, farmers, and processors.

Brighton’s supervisors are Dr Rahul Bhosale and Professor Malcom Bennett from the university as well as Professor Peter Shewry from Rothamsted Research. He is also working closely with Dr Neil Graham (University of Nottingham Plant Sciences), Professor David Cook (University of Nottingham Brewery Sciences), Professor Ian Fisk (University of Nottingham Food Sciences), and Dr Ndjido Kane from Senegal (ISRA and ITA).