Genetics Research and Development

Vice President

India

Email: Jagdish_kumar@hirichseeds.com

Qualifications:

1973 Ph.D., Plant Breeding, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

1969 M.Sc., Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

1967 B.Sc., Genetics, Panjab University, (Solan), Chandigarh, India.

Publications (Selected)

1. Anupama, K., Jagdish Kumar, P. Winter and P M Gaur. Molecular markers for Fusarium wilt resistance in chickpea. Ind. J. Genet. 2017. 77:
2. Jagdish Kumar and Gary R. Ablett. Soybean Improvement in North America. 2010. Pages 24-33 In: K. Kitamura (ed): All About Soybeans. Science Forum, Tokyo, Japan. PP 538.
3. Murphy, S.E. Elizabeth A. Lee, Lorna Woodrow, Philippe Seguin, Jagdish Kumar, Istvan Rajcan, and Gary R. Ablett. Association of isoflavone concentration and other traits in soybean. Canad. J. Plant Sci. 2009.
4. Gaur, P.M. and Jagdish Kumar et al. 2008. Role of earliness in chickpea productivity. In: (M.C. Kharakwal ed.) Proceedings Fourth IFL Research Conference, (2005)2008 New Delhi, India.
5. Cho S, Jagdish Kumar, JL Shultz, K Anupama, F. Tefera & F. J. Muehlbauer. Mapping genes for double podding and other morphological traits in chickpea. Euphytica 2002. 128: 285–292.
6. Md. Yusuf Ali, L. Krishnamurthy, N.P. Saxena, O.P. Rupela, Jagdish Kumar and C. Johansen. Scope for genetic manipulation of mineral acquisition in chickpea. Crops and Soils. 2002. 245:123-134
7. Jagdish Kumar, and Shahal Abbo. Genetics of flowering time in chickpea and its bearing on productivity in the semi-arid environments. Adv. Agron. 2001. 72:7-38.
8. Jagdish Kumar, and B. V. Rao. Registration of ICCV 96029, a super-early chickpea line. Crop Sci. 2001. 41:
9. A. M. Musa, D. Harris, C. Johansen and Jagdish Kumar. Short duration chickpea to replace fallow after Aman rice: The role of on –farm seed priming in high Barind tract of Bangladesh Experimental Agriculture. 2001.
10. Jagdish Kumar, A. Satyanarayana, K.B. Wanjari, R.L. Pandey, and BV Rao. ICCV 2 a superior variety of kabuli chickpea for central and Peninsular India. In “Indian Farming” 2001.
11. Jagdish Kumar, and H. A. van Rheenen A major gene for time of flowering in chickpea. J. Hered. 2000. 91:67-68.
12. Jagdish Kumar, N. V. S Vijayalaxmi, and T. Nageshwara Rao. Inheritance of flower color in chickpea. J. Hered. 2000. 91:416-417
13. Jagdish Kumar, R. K. Srivastava, and M. Ganesh.. 2000. Penetrance and expressivity of a gene for double podding in chickpea. J. Hered. 2000. 91: 234-236.
14. Jagdish Kumar. Pulses – Towards a Quantitative Leap. The Hindu Survey of Indian Agriculture. 2000. pp. 61-63.
15. A. Sarker, Jagdish Kumar, M. M. Rahman, M. S. Hasan, W. Zaman, M. A. Afzal, and A. N. M. M. Murshed.. Registration of ‘Barimasur 3’ lentil. Crop Sci. 1999 39:1536.
16. Abebe Tullu, F.J. Muehlbauer, C.J. Simon, M.S. Mayer, Jagdish Kumar, W.J. Kaiser and J.M. Kraft. Inheritance and linkage of a gene for resistance to race 4 of Fusarium wilt and RAPD markers in chickpea. Euphytica 1999 102:227-232.
17. M. M. Rahman, Jagdish Kumar, M. A. Malek and M. A. Rahman.. Registration of ‘Barichhola-6’ chickpea. Crop Sci. 1998 38:887.
18. Jagdish Kumar. Pulses, Missed opportunities. Hindu Survey of Indian Agriculture 1997. 49:52.
19. Jagdish Kumar. 1997. Complementation for flower colour in two chickpea crosses. Indian J. Pulses Res. 10(2):227-228.
20. M.A. Mayer, A. Tullu, C.J. Simon, Jagdish Kumar, W.J. Kaiser, J.M. Kraft and F.J. Muehlbauer. 1997. Development of a DNA marker for fusarium wilt resistance in chickpea. Crop Sci. 37: 1625-1629.
21. Jagdish Kumar, K.B. Singh, R.S. Malhotra, J.H. Miranda and T. Dasgupta. 1996. Genotype x environment interaction in chickpea. Indian J. Genet. 56: 69-78.
22. Jagdish Kumar, S.C. Sethi, C. Johansen, T.G. Kelley, M.M. Rahman and H.A. van Rheenen. 1996. The potential of short-duration chickpea varieties. Indian J. Dryland Agric. & Dev. 11: 28-32.
23. C.L.L. Gowda, O. Singh, S.C. Sethi, K.B. Singh, B.V. Rao, M.M. Rahman, Jagdish Kumar and M.A. Rahman. 1995. Registration of ‘ICCV 10’ Chickpea. Crop Sci. 35: 588.
24. Jagdish Kumar, W.J. Kaiser and R.M. Hannan, R.M. 1991. Resistance to pre-emergence damping-off (Pythium ultimum) in two crosses of desi x kabuli chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.). Plant Dis. 75: 1244-1245.
25. U. Singh, N. Subramanyam and Jagdish Kumar. Cooking quality and nutritional attributes of some newly developed cultivars of chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.). J. Sci. Food Agric. 1991.55:37 46.
26. Jagdish Kumar, M.P. Haware, and J.B. Smithson. Registration of four wilt resistant kabuli chickpea strains. Crop Sci. 25: 1985. 576-577.
27. Jagdish Kumar, and M.P. Haware. Inheritance of resistance to wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri) in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Phytopathology 72: 1982. 1035-1036.