{"id":11997,"date":"2026-06-09T18:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/staff\/paliwal-rajneesh\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:35:10","slug":"paliwal-rajneesh","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/staff\/paliwal-rajneesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Paliwal, Rajneesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s3\">Rajneesh Paliwal<\/span><span class=\"s3\">, an<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Indian<\/span><span class=\"s3\">, <\/span><span class=\"s3\">joined IITA in<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> 2016<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> as a Molecular Geneticist<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\/<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Breeder<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> \u00e0<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> GRC-IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria<\/span><span class=\"s3\">. He <\/span><span class=\"s3\">completed <\/span><span class=\"s3\">his<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">MSc<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> and PhD<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">dans<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Genetics and Plant breeding<\/span><span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">He has gained extensive experience over 14 years in crop breeding using genomic tools. Paliwal<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">is responsible for supervising molecular research projects in<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">IITA <\/span><span class=\"s3\">genebank<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">crop (Cassava, Yam, Banana, Cowpea, Bambara groundnut, African <\/span><span class=\"s3\">yambean<\/span><span class=\"s3\">, and other minor legumes) involving<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">field <\/span><span class=\"s3\">characterization <\/span><span class=\"s3\">research and<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">molecular research<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> activit<\/span><span class=\"s3\">ies<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> on DNA fingerprinting, linkage mapping, QTL analysis, Allele mining for agronomical, yield and nutrition traits<\/span><span class=\"s3\">, <\/span><span class=\"s3\">EnvGWAS<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> analysis and GS<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">studies. He is currently involved in a BMGF project, \u201cMining useful alleles for climate change adaptation in cassava and cowpea from CGIAR genebanks\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">He is also<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">involved in molecular joint-analysis of over 9000 cassava accessions of global cassava collection from IITA and CIAT <\/span><span class=\"s3\">genebanks<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> and development of cassava and yam <\/span><span class=\"s3\">p<\/span><span class=\"s3\">angenome<\/span><span class=\"s3\">s<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> in collaboration with Cornell University and Salk Institute.<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">He was awarded a DAAD fellowship (2008-10) for his PhD research at the<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Gatersleben<\/span><span class=\"s3\">, Germany<\/span><span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Before this appointment, he had been a<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Post-Doctoral fellow (Year 2013-2016)<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics<\/span><span class=\"s3\">, Nairobi, Kenya.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajneesh Paliwal, an\u00a0Indian, joined IITA in 2016 as a Molecular Geneticist\/Breeder at GRC-IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria. 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