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Jagdish Singh Arya

Plant Breeder
Aligarh,Uttar Pradesh

Summary

A well-presented, self-motivated and confident breeder with over 8 years of successful experience in the field of cucurbits breeding. Proficiency in genetics, statistics, and exploratory data analyses. Capability to develop and manage breeding programs with creative insight.

Overview

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13
13
years of post-secondary education
8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Selector (Assistant Breeder)

Rijk Zwaan India Seeds Pvt. Ltd.
Bangaluru, Karnataka
05.2017 - Current
  • Current responsibilities are evaluation of advanced cauliflower, bicolor cucumber hybrids and lines
  • Working on germplasm enhancement, development of new lines of Cauliflower
  • Screening of germplasm for Erwinia, Xenthomonas and Pluetella resistance
  • Developed 10 pre-commercial hybrids of tropical and subtropical cauliflower
  • Performed cauliflower market analysis as per feedback from growers and dealers

Senior Research Fellow

ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute
New Delhi, New Delhi
06.2016 - 03.2017
  • Worked on integration of gynoecy in bitter gourd and cucumber
  • Performed selfing over 500 accessions of bottle gourd and bitter gourd to make uniform line
  • Successfully accomplished DUS project on Ridge gourd, Spinach and Amaranth in IARI, New Delhi

Senior Research Fellow

Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Defence Research and Development Organization
Leh, Jammu and Kashmir
08.2013 - 08.2015
  • Successfully accomplished project on climate resilient plant breeding especially to mitigate effect of drought and cold on yield of onion.
  • Screened 36 accessions of onion; as per result 3 promising varieties recommended for cultivation at Leh.
  • Wrote 4 research papers, reports, summaries regarding morphological and biochemical characterization of onion germplasm.

Junior Research Fellow

Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Defence Research and Development Organization(DRDO)
Leh, Jammu and Kashmir
08.2011 - 08.2013
  • Collection,conservation and evaluation of Rumex germplasm.
  • Wrote 2 research papers, reports and summaries regarding biochemical and morphological characterization of Rumex.
  • Performed introduction and evaluation of 36 long day type onion germplasm at Leh.

Education

Ph.D. - Characterization And Evaluation of Onion Germplasm

Jaypee University Of Information Technology
Waknaghat, Solan, India
08.2012 - 02.2019

Master of Science - Genetics &Plant Breeding

SVP University Of Agriculture & Technology
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
07.2009 - 08.2011

Bachelor of Science - Agriculture

SVP University Of Agriculture & Technology
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
07.2005 - 06.2009

Skills

Strong background in cucumber breeding, quantitative genetics, field plot technique and statistical analysis tools

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Accomplishments

    Developed 10 tropical and subtropical pre commercial hybrids of cauliflower

Affiliations

  • Society for recent development in Agriculture

Software

OPstat, SPSS, Cropstat, MSoffice

Certification

Two months training on Germplasm processing for long term storage in the division of germplasm conservation, NBPGR, New Delhi

Interests

Environment resilient plant breeding

Traveling

I would like to travel across the glove, whenever i shall get the opportunity.

Publications

1. Jagdish Singh Arya , Singh N, Preeti Singh Arya and Anil Kant (2018) Comparative performance of onion genotypes using ‘Sets and Seedlings' as planting material at Leh cold desert. Journal of Applied Horticulture 20(1): 64-68.

2. Jagdish Singh Arya , Narendra Singh, Preeti Singh Arya and Anil Kant (2017) Morphological variations and relationship among onion germplasm for quantitative and qualitative traits at trans-Himalaya Ladakh, India. Australian Journal of Crop Science 11(03):329-337.

3. Jagdish Singh Arya , Narendra Singh, Tsewang Rinchen, Samar Bahadur Maurya and Girish Korekar (2015) Genotypes, geographical regions and solvents dependent antioxidant activity of Rumexpatientia L. in cold desert of trans-Himalaya Ladakh, India. Australian Journal of Crop Science.9 (2):98-104.

4. Jagdish Singh Arya , Preeti, Mahesh Kumar and Pooran Chand (2014) Analysis of genetic divergence for yield Contributing traits in wheat (Triticumaestivum L.) Genotypes. Progressive Agriculture. 14(1): 178-184.

5. Narendra Singh, Samar Bahadur Maurya, Jagdish Singh Arya and Srivastava RB (2013) ‘rootlet to seed': a new technology for high quality carrot seed production in one year. Current science 104(9):1132-33.

6. Narendra Singh, Jagdish Singh Arya , Samar Bahadur Maurya and RB Srivastava (2013) Rumex (RumexpatientiaL.) Spinach of high altitude cold desert. Current Science 104(5):574.

7. Jagdish Singh Arya ,Pooran Chand, S.K. Singh and Gaurav Kumar (2011) Correlation and Path analysis in bread wheat (Triticumaestivum L.) International conference on Issues for climate change, Land use diversification and biotechnological tools for livelihood security, October 8-10.

Gaurav Kumar, S.K. Singh, Pooran Chand, B. Singh and Jagdish Singh Arya (2011) Character association and path analysis in wheat (Triticumaestivum L.) International conference on Issues for climate change, Land use diversification and biotechnological tools for livelihood security, October 8-10.

Timeline

Assistant Selector (Assistant Breeder)

Rijk Zwaan India Seeds Pvt. Ltd.
05.2017 - Current

Senior Research Fellow

ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute
06.2016 - 03.2017

Senior Research Fellow

Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Defence Research and Development Organization
08.2013 - 08.2015

Two months training on Agribusiness management conducted under agri-clinics and agri-business centers scheme of government of India

10-2012

Ph.D. - Characterization And Evaluation of Onion Germplasm

Jaypee University Of Information Technology
08.2012 - 02.2019

Two months training on Germplasm processing for long term storage in the division of germplasm conservation, NBPGR, New Delhi

12-2011

Junior Research Fellow

Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Defence Research and Development Organization(DRDO)
08.2011 - 08.2013

Master of Science - Genetics &Plant Breeding

SVP University Of Agriculture & Technology
07.2009 - 08.2011

Bachelor of Science - Agriculture

SVP University Of Agriculture & Technology
07.2005 - 06.2009
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