Education : B.Sc Agriculture (Hons.)/College of Agriculture, PAU, Ludhiana (1990); M.Sc Plant Breeding/College of Agriculture, PAU, Ludhiana (1993); Ph.D. Plant Breeding/College of Agriculture, PAU, Ludhiana (1997).

Positions held : Asstt. Plant Breeder (1997-2006); Plant Breeder (2006-2012); Principal Soybean Breeder (2012- till date)

Field of Specialization: Soybean Breeding

Research Interests: Breeding improved varieties of soybean, rajmash, fieldpea, mungbean and urdbean

Research Projects:

1. All India Coordinated Research Project on Soybean.
2. Breeding pulse crops for higher yield, quality and stability of performance.
3. Marker assisting stacking of yellow mosaic disease resistance, null Kunitz trypsin inhibitor, null lipoxygenase-2 genes, and broadening the genetic base of soybean (CC-PI) funded by NASF, ICAR New Delhi.

Selected Research Publications (maximum up to 5):

1. Mandahal KS, Meghana DP, Sirari A, Bhatia D, Garcha KS and Gill BS (2024). Identification of genes governing YMD resistance in soybean cultivar SL 958. J Sci Food Agric. doi 10.1002/jsfa.13973.
2. Koraboyana V, Gill BS, Sirari A, Khosla G, Bindra S and Kumar V (2023). Parent genome contribution and its relationship with grain yield in backcross-derived lines of soybean (Glycine max). Plant Breeding, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.13073.
3. Gaurav Khosla, B S Gill, Asmita Sirari, Pritpal Singh (2022) Assessment of efficiency of breeding methods using molecular markers in soybean. Genetika54: 265-274.
   https://doi.org/10.2298/GENSR2201265K.
4. Dhaliwal SK, Dhillon SK, Gill BS, Sirari A, Rani A and Dhillon R (2021). Combining the null Kunitz trypsin inhibitor and yellow mosaic disease resistance in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill). Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding57: 19–25.
5. Khosla G, Gill BS, Sirari A, Sharma P and Singh S (2021). Inheritance and molecular mapping of resistance against mungbean yellow mosaic India virus in soybean (Glycine max). Plant Breeding, 1–10. https:// doi.org/10.1111/pbr.12957.

Training attended

Agricultural Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Biosafety and Technology Transfer Program organized by Michigan State University, USA from Aug. 4-17, 2024.