Post-Doctoral Associate-Ad-Nankar

Duties/Responsibilities

• Field
  - Lead onion pre-breeding and breeding research to generate segregating populations. Subsequently identify promising center rot resistance lines that are adapted in short-day environment. (50%)
• Greenhouse
  - Lead disease screening against center rot. Assist the internal collaborators with genome edited mutants screening against center rot. (10%)
• Laboratory
  - Assist in post-harvest bulb quality analysis, lead marker assisted selection, and genomic selection activities related to QTL mapping. (15%)
• Prepare peer-reviewed publications, participate in grant proposal preparation, supervise graduate and undergraduate students, and seasonal workers research activities in lab, greenhouse, and field set up. (15%)
• Assigned tasks in other related vegetable breeding projects. (10%)

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