Open AccessCytogenetics to functional genomics: six decades journey of Professor P.K. Gupta
Author(s) -
Kulwal Pawan L.,
Mir Reyazul Rouf,
Varshney Rajeev K.
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
plant biotechnology journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.525
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1467-7652
pISSN - 1467-7644
DOI - 10.1111/pbi.13795
Subject(s) - biology , triticeae , genomics , cytotaxonomy , genetics , cytogenetics , molecular breeding , evolutionary biology , genome , karyotype , chromosome , gene
Summary We had the fortune of starting our scientific/research careers in the Molecular Biology and Crop Biotechnology Laboratory of Professor P.K. Gupta at Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, UP, India. Here, we describe the most important scientific contributions of our beloved mentor in the area of cytotaxonomy, cytogenetics, mutation breeding, quantitative genetics, molecular biology, crop biotechnology and plant genomics, on his 85th birthday. Important contributions made in the development and use of genomics resources including the development and use of different kinds of molecular markers, genetic and physical mapping, quantitative trait locus (QTL) interval mapping, genome‐wide association mapping and molecular breeding including marker‐assisted selection have been briefly summarized. Efforts have been also made to give readers a glimpse of important contributions in the study of cytology/apomixis of grasses, cytotaxonomic studies in asteraceae/fabaceae, nuclear/repetitive DNA content in Lolium , interspecific/intergeneric relationships involving the genus Hordeum and re‐examining taxonomy of the tribe Triticeae.