Swati Shrestha is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida, in the Vegetable Breeding and Genetics lab. For her thesis research, she develops and applies molecular tools for accelerated breeding of Potyvirus resistance in squash. Swati is interested in science communication as much as she is into research and development. In the future she aims to be a scientific writer where she can research and report innovative trends in agricultural production system.
In this 2022 Share Your Research Talk, Swati Shrestha describes her thesis research on the development of molecular markers of virus-resistance squash. (Talk recorded in May 2022)