Background
Khush was born on August 22, 1935 in Rurkee, Punjab, India; the son of Kartar Singh and Pritam Kaur (Dosanjh) Kooner.
(The overuse and misuse of insecticides some four decades ...)
The overuse and misuse of insecticides some four decades ago created major environmental problems and was followed by the development of an "integrated pest management" approach to crop pests. This approach utilizes a combination of host plant resistance and cultural, biological and chemical control methods. Crop improvement programs emphasize the breeding of crop varieties with multiple resistance to pests, and resistant varieties developed in recent years represent some of the greatest achievements of modern agriculture. This book presents a broad overview of host plant resistance to insect pests. It shows how plants can defend themselves naturally and how insects have adapted to overcome these mechanisms through coevolution. It also describes screening and breeding for insect resistance.
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1995
(The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other s...)
The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other selected literature contains nearly 4,400 pages of searchable information on rice genetics and cytogenetics published by the IRRI and its partners since 1964. In addition to the five genetics symposia held at 5-year intervals since 1985, the collection contains classic publications that kicked off significant reporting on these subjects in the early 1960s. This collection is a comprehensive and historical documentation on the subject of rice genetics, spanning 45 years of research and scholarly work.Held in 1995 and published the following year, Rice Genetics III contains 138 chapters from various contributors on topics dealing with rice genetic research, including varietal differentiation and evolution; genetics of morphological and physiological traits and disease resistance; cytogenetics; tissue and cell culture; molecular mapping of genes; map-based gene cloning; molecular genetics of cytoplasmic male sterility; transformation; gene isolation, characterization, and expression; genetic diversity in pathogen populations; and rice research priorities.
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2009
agronomist geneticist scientist
Khush was born on August 22, 1935 in Rurkee, Punjab, India; the son of Kartar Singh and Pritam Kaur (Dosanjh) Kooner.
Khush received a Bachelor of Science degree from Punjab Agricultural University in 1955. Five years later he earned his Doctor of philosophy degree from the University of California in Davis.
He was given an honorary degree of Bachelor of Science from Tamil Nrdu Agriculture University in 1995, Christian Science Azad University of Agriculture & Technology in 1995, Great Britain Pant University of Agriculture and Technology in 1996, De Montfort University in 1998 and Assam Agricultural University in 2000, University of Cambridge in 2000.
Khush began his career as a research assistant at the University of California in Davis in 1957. Three years later he became an assistant geneticist at the same university and held it for seven years.
In 1967, he moved to the Philippines and joined International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines as Plant Breeder. Then in 1972, Khush was appointed a head of plant breeding department at this institute. He worked as a principal plant breeder and head of division of plant breeding genetics and biochemistry at the same institute from 1976 to 2002.
In 2002, Khush returned to the University of California in Davis as an Adjunct Professor. Nowadays he is a professor emeritus of plant sciences at the same university.
(The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other s...)
2009(The overuse and misuse of insecticides some four decades ...)
1995Khush is a member of Genetic Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Royal Society of London, Crop Science Society of Philippines, Indian National Science Academy, United States National Academy of Sciences and Third World Academy of Sciences.
On December 31, 1961 Gurdev Khush married Harwant Kaur Grewal. They have 4 children.