Dr Mohar Singh currently works as Principal Scientist (Plant Genetic Resources) at ICAR- National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources Regional Station, Shimla India. He received his PhD degree in Plant Breeding from Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur, India followed by DSc from Himachal Pradesh University Shimla India. He is working on genetic and genomic resources of pulses, pseudo cereals and cereals including their crop wild relatives and landraces foe diversity analysis using next generation technologies, which resulted into identification of useful traits against nutritional and major biotic and abiotic stresses including agronomic improvement related characters, some which have been introgressed into the cultivated backgrounds for diversification of cultivated gene pool. He has published more than 120 research papers in journals of national and international repute and also holds three textbooks and eight edited books to his credit published by Elsevier Insight, Academic Press and Springer, among others.

• 1. Introduction2. Origin, distribution, and gene pools3. Genetic resources: collection, conservation (in-situ and ex-situ), characterization and maintenance4. Conventional cytogenetic manipulations5. Embryo-rescue and cytogenetic manipulations6. Gene pyramiding and multiple character breeding7. Molecular marker –assisted gene pyramiding8. Transferring multiple genes through backcross breeding9. Transferring multiple characters through conventional multiple crossing10. Genetic transformation11. The impact of improvement research