Kuldeep Singh's Biography

Kuldeep Singh, Senior Molecular Geneticist (Professor), Punjab Agricultural University

Dr Kuldeep Singh is presently Senior Molecular Geneticist (Professor). His fields of competence are Plant Breeding, Molecular Breeding, Molecular Genetics, Genomics and Wide Hybridization. He completed his Ph. D. (Plant Breeding) from Punjab Agricultural University in 1989. He has published more than 200 publications including 94 in refereed journals including Science, PNAS, Genetics, TAG, Crop Science, PLoS ONE, Euphytica, Molecular Breeding, Current Science, etc. He has guided 13 M. Sc and 14 Ph D students as major advisor and 80 other students in various other disciplines. Dr Kuldeep is involved in development of three varieties of wheat and five of rice (all involving MAS). He has Led/leading 28 externally funded projects at PAU including Wheat Genome Sequencing Project since 1998.