Over the past 37 years, with focusing on anti-wilt, high yield, and anti-psyllium, Dr. Gowda has been involved in research and development of improved chickpea. He and his team developed an advanced variety series and supplied them to the breeders of more than 30 countries around the world. On the basis of this kind material, scientists of 10 developing countries, were able to develop a high-yield varieties of 68 kinds. Many of these varieties remarkably contributed to increase farmers’ income and nations’ GDP.

Although various oligosaccharide exists in the nature and the each has original functionality and convenience, since it is very difficult to produce the each single oligosaccharide which is rich in diversity for bulk preparation, the only small quantity of them can be used in industries now. With the help of glucose-related enzymes which exist in the nature named phosphorylase as a safe biological catalyst, he greatly expanded (more than 200 kinds) the variation of beneficial oligosaccharide for health maintenance of human beings. And he also succeeded in developing a Low-cost innovative general-purpose manufacturing technology through high-yield conversion to functional oligosaccharide from vegetable or marine biomass.