About me
Dr. Amit Dhingra is the Head of the Department of Horticultural Sciences, Professor of Genomics and Biotechnology, and Senior Scientist at the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University. After his post-doctoral training at Rutgers University, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Florida, he joined Washington State University in 2006 and, in 2021, moved his program to Texas A&M University. Over the last 15 years, his research has focused on understanding how plants respond to their environment including grapevine responses to heat, drought, and smoke.