PAU’s research scholars bring laurels

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 16

Arvind Kumar Baswal, a PhD student at the Department of Fruit Science, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), attended summer school training course on ‘Pre-harvest and post-harvest physiology of temperate fruit crops’, organised by the International Society of Horticultural Sciences , German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, from July 22 to August 4.

Baswal was awarded international fellowship under the German academic exchange service programme. Baswal is pursuing PhD on ‘Effect of post-harvest treatments and packaging on storage life and quality of kinnow fruit’.

Meanwhile, another research scholar Ashok Babadev Jagtap at the School of Agricultural Biotechnology, PAU, has been awarded science and engineering research board (SERB) overseas visiting doctoral fellowship for carrying out his research on ‘Genome-wide development and validation of cost-effective KASP marker assays for genetic dissection of heat stress tolerance in maize’ under the guidance of Dr Gurmukh S Johal, Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at the Purdue University, USA.