Uday Chand Jha

Uday Chand Jha Scientist, Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding in crop improvement division, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India

Biography
? Received B. Sc (Ag) Hons. in 2001-2004 from Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India ? Received MSc. in Genetics &Plant Breeding in 2007 from GBPUAT, Pant Nagar, India ? Continuing PhD from Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India as inservice candidate.

Research Interest
abiotic stress viz., drought, heat stress and cold stress in legume crops especially chickpea. Screening of chickpea genepools for both drought stress and heat stress. Interested in working out genetic inheritance of drought and heat stress tolerance in chickpea. Additionally, interested in investigating underlying QTL conferring drought and heat stress tolerance in chickpea.