Background
Kang, Manjit Singh was born on March 3, 1948 in Punjab, India. Came to the United States, 1969, naturalized, 1976. Son of Gurdit Singh and Parminder Kaur Kang.
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Quantitative Genetics, Genomics and Plant Breeding
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This book provides an overview of the rapidly developing integration and interdependence of quantitative genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and their application to plant breeding. Chapters have been developed from a symposium held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in March 2001, although additional contributions have also been commissioned especially for this volume. The main topics covered include: quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, genomics, bioinformatics and marker-assisted selection, tissue culture and alien introgression for crop improvement, and advances in genotype by environment interaction/stability analysis.
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Crop Improvement: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
(Learn to integrate molecular genetic techniques with trad...)
Learn to integrate molecular genetic techniques with traditional plant breeding methods! This comprehensive book provides the latest authoritative scientific information on improvement of both temperate and tropical crops. Crop Improvement: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century brings together expert plant breeders and geneticists to address issues related to crop adaptability and stability across environments for important food and fiber crops. It emphasizes the need to integrate molecular genetic techniques with traditional plant breeding methods to develop hardier, more productive crops. Crop Improvement includes the latest research on physiological and biochemical responses of plants to drought and heat stress, which should help breeders develop effective strategies for improving resistance to abiotic stresses. In addition, this helpful book elucidates the use of mixed models and best linear unbiased prediction. To make the book comprehensive, chapters discuss stability analysis in crop performance trials and genotype-by-environment interactions. Crop Improvement includes detailed information on breeding specific crops, including: • rice • tropical maize • sorghum • common bean • sugar beet • bananas and plantain • cottonCrop Improvement offers both practical information and up-to-date research. It also suggests a vision of new directions and partnerships that are expected to evolve in this century. This book is an essential resource for practicing plant breeders and geneticists at universities, government agencies, and industry. It should also be of use to teachers and students engaged in crop breeding.
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GGE Biplot Analysis: A Graphical Tool for Breeders, Geneticists, and Agronomists
(Research data is expensive and precious, yet it is seldom...)
Research data is expensive and precious, yet it is seldom fully utilized due to our ability of comprehension. Graphical display is desirable, if not absolutely necessary, for fully understanding large data sets with complex interconnectedness and interactions. The newly developed GGE biplot methodology is a superior approach to the graphical analysis of research data and may revolutionize the way researchers analyze data. GGE Biplot Analysis: A Graphical Tool for Breeders, Geneticists, and Agronomists introduces the theory of the GGE biplot methodology and describes its applications in visual analysis of multi-environment trial (MET) data and other types of research data. The text includes three parts: I) Genotype by environment interaction and stability analysis, II) GGE biplot and multi-environment trial (MET) data analysis, and III) GGE biplot software and applications in analyzing other types of two-way data. Part I presents a comprehensive but succinct treatment of genotype-by-environment (G x E) interaction in order to provide an overall picture of the entire G x E issue and to show how GGE biplot methodology fits in. Part II describes and demonstrates the numerous utilities of a GGE biplot in visualizing MET data. Part III describes the "GGE biplot" software and extends its application to the analysis of genotype by trait data, QTL mapping data, diallel cross data, and host by pathogen data. Altogether, this book demonstrates that the GGE biplot methodology is a superior data-visualization tool and allows the researcher to graphically extract and utilize the information from MET data and other types of two-way data to the fullest extent. GGE Biplot Analysis makes this useful technology accessible on a wider scale to plant and animal breeders, geneticists, agronomists, ecologists, and students in these and other related research areas. The information presented here will greatly enhance researchers' ability to understand their data and will make a significant contribution toward helping to meet the challenges of food production and food security that currently face the world. Readers will be amazed to see how much more they can extract from their data by implementing the new and easily understood GGE biplot methods presented here and will soon agree that any delay in using this technique is a loss to their research achievement.
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Manjit Singh Kang
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Manjit Singh Kang, American geneticist, plant breeder. Achievements include research on developing resistance to Aspergillus flavus and the carcinogen aflatoxin in maize grain. Fulbright Senior scholar Council for International Exchange of Scholars and Malaysian-American Commission on Educational Exchange, 1999.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with honors, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India, 1968. Master of Science, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 1971. Master of Arts in Botany, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1977.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Missouri, Columbia, 1977.
Career
Research scholar), Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India, 1968. Master of Science, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 1971, Master of Arts in Botany, Carbondale, 1977. Doctor of Philosophy, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1977.
Teaching assistant Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 1969-1971.
Research assistant plant and soil science Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1971-1972, preceptor plant and soil science, 1972-1974. Graduate research assistant agronomy U. Missouri, Columbia, 1974-1977.
Research associate Center.Biology of Natural Systems, Washington University, Saint Louis, 1977. Senior plant breeder hybrid corn research station Cargill, Incorporated., Saint Peter, Minnesota, 1977-1978, research station manager, 1979.
Research associate agronomy U. Missouri, 1980.
Assistant professor genetics U. Florida Everglades Research and Education Center, Belle Glade, 1981-1985. Associate professor agronomy Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1986-1990, professor, 1990. Consultant Government Malaysia, Palm Oil Research Institute Malaysia, 1997.
Appointed board invited distinguished jurors International Journal Scholarly Academy Intellectual Diversity, 1997.
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Crop Improvement: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
(Learn to integrate molecular genetic techniques with trad...)
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Quantitative Genetics, Genomics and Plant Breeding
(This book provides an overview of the rapidly developing ...)
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GGE Biplot Analysis: A Graphical Tool for Breeders, Geneticists, and Agronomists
(Research data is expensive and precious, yet it is seldom...)
- Crop Improvement; Challenges in the Twenty-first Century.
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Crop Improvement: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
Membership
Fellow American Society Agronomy (elected), Crop Science Society of America (elected). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science,American Association of University Professors (chairman membership committee since 2001), American Genetic Association, American Society Sugar Cane Technologists, International Society Plant Molecular Biology, Council Agricultural and Science Technology, Sigma Xi (treasurer Science Research Society Louisiana State University chapter 1998-1999, vice president Louisiana State University chapter 1999-2000, acting president 2000, president 2000-2001), Gamma Sigma Delta.
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Married Georgia Anna Crocker, February 13, 1971 (divorced August 2000). Married Neeta Devi Sinnappah, November 28, 2001.
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