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Rajneesh Paliwal<\/span>, an<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Indian<\/span>, <\/span>joined IITA in<\/span> 2016<\/span> as a Molecular Geneticist<\/span>\/<\/span>Breeder<\/span> \u00e0<\/span> GRC-IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria<\/span>. He <\/span>completed <\/span>his<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>MSc<\/span> and PhD<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>dans<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Genetics and Plant breeding<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>He has gained extensive experience over 14 years in crop breeding using genomic tools. Paliwal<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>is responsible for supervising molecular research projects in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>IITA <\/span>genebank<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>crop (Cassava, Yam, Banana, Cowpea, Bambara groundnut, African <\/span>yambean<\/span>, and other minor legumes) involving<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>field <\/span>characterization <\/span>research and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>molecular research<\/span> activit<\/span>ies<\/span> on DNA fingerprinting, linkage mapping, QTL analysis, Allele mining for agronomical, yield and nutrition traits<\/span>, <\/span>EnvGWAS<\/span> analysis and GS<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>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>\u00a0<\/span>He is also<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>involved in molecular joint-analysis of over 9000 cassava accessions of global cassava collection from IITA and CIAT <\/span>genebanks<\/span> and development of cassava and yam <\/span>p<\/span>angenome<\/span>s<\/span> in collaboration with Cornell University and Salk Institute.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>He was awarded a DAAD fellowship (2008-10) for his PhD research at the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), <\/span>Gatersleben<\/span>, Germany<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Before this appointment, he had been a<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Post-Doctoral fellow (Year 2013-2016)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics<\/span>, Nairobi, Kenya.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rajneesh Paliwal, an\u00a0Indian, joined IITA in 2016 as a Molecular Geneticist\/Breeder at GRC-IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria. He completed his\u00a0MSc and PhD\u00a0\u00a0in\u00a0Genetics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"disabled","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":[],"ast-content-background-meta":[]},"science-area":[],"program":[155],"location":[],"hub":[],"crop":[],"staff-type":[],"class_list":["post-11997","staff","type-staff","status-publish","hentry","program-genebank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/11997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/11997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"science-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/science-area?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"hub","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hub?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"crop","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/crop?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"staff-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-type?post=11997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}