Saurabh Singh is currently Ph.D. Research Scholar at Division of Vegetable Science, IARI, New Delhi since 2015. He has completed his B.Sc. Agriculture from CSK, HPKV Palampur and M.Sc. Agriculture with specialization in Vegetable Science from the same institute. He is the recipient of honour certificate and merit fellowship in B.Sc. and M.Sc. programme. He has also worked as Agriculture Expert for one year in the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) funded HPCDP project for crop diversification and promotion of vegetable cultivation in Himachal Pradesh. He has also qualified the ICAR-ASRB NET five times and IARI Ph.D. entrance exam 2015. He has about 5 years of research experience on Brassica vegetables breeding. He has published research and review papers in national and international reputed journals with impact factors and NAAS rating. He has also authored one book, 4 book chapters with national and international publishers and 14 popular articles.
The main research interest is on understanding molecular mechanisms of genetic phenomenon of self-incompatibility, cytoplasmic male sterility and nutraceutical rich vegetable breeding and heterosis breeding for yield and quality traits. Application of molecular biology and biotechnology in vegetable crops and utilization of molecular markers for assessing the genetic diversity, gene tagging, QTLs mapping and marker assisted breeding for crop improvement and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Current research focus is on genetics studies in cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis L.) involving CMS and DH lines, studying the genetics, gene action, heritability and heterosis for Biochemical and horticultural traits in snowball cauliflower, genetic diversity studies in CMS lines using molecular markers and confirmation of cytoplasmic sources in CMS lines using mitochondrial DNA specific markers.