Darshan currently manages the Genetic Improvement portfolio which aims to enhance the inherent potential to produce, to protect and to improve quality of grain crops for WA. The Genetic Improvement research team works in the pre-breeding space with the goal to deliver superior crop varieties for industry that uses both traditional and modern approaches, including genomics and gene editing. 

Darshan's personal vision is to develop and catalyse genetic solutions to meet climate change and sustainability challenges for the benefit individual growers, the grain industry sector and society. The portfolio mission is to boost primary industry productivity and global competitiveness for sustainable economic and regional development through genetic improvement research and technologies on grain crops.