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Suman Sharma
Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, PeeDee Research and Education Center
Office: Room 203, PeeDee Research and Education Center
Phone:
Email: sumans@clemson.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D. Plant and Environmental Sciences
New Mexico State University 2024
M.Sc. Horticulture (Vegetable Science)
Punjab Agricultural University 2019
B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons.) with Horticulture as Major
Punjab Agricultural University 2017
Courses Taught
During my Ph.D., I taught courses, Introduction to Plant Science and Principles of Crop Production
Profile
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow working with the vegetable breeding program for sweet corn and lima beans, focusing on trait improvement and disease resistance.
Research Interests
My research interests include the improvement of vegetable crops through conventional breeding methods and modern technologies such as genomics-assisted breeding, high-throughput phenotyping etc.
Publications
1. Sharma, S.; Cramer, C.S. Validating Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers for Fusarium Basal Rot Resistance in Short-day Onion Cultivars through Kompetitive Allele-Specific PCR. Crop Breeding Genetics & Genomics 2024;6(3):e240006. https://doi.org/10.20900/cbgg20240006
2. Sharma, S.; Cramer, C.S.; Mandal, S. Recent Advances in Controlling Fusarium Diseases in Alliums. Horticulturae 2024, 10, 527. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10050527
3. Sharma, S.; Khar, A.; Khosa, J.S.; Mandal, S.; Malla, S. Recent Advances in Molecular Genetics of Onion. Horticulturae 2024, 10, 256. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10030256
4. Sharma, S.; Cramer, C.S. Reduced Iris Yellow Spot Symptom Expression in the Selected Onion Germplasm. Vegetable Research 2023, 3, 26. https://doi.org/10.48130/VR-2023-0026
5. Singh, H.; Sekhon, B.S.; Kumar, P.; Dhall, R.K.; Devi, R.; Dhillon, T.S.; Sharma, S.; Khar, A.; Yadav, R.K.; Tomar, B.S.; et al. Genetic Mechanisms for Hybrid Breeding in Vegetable Crops. Plants 2023, 12, 2294. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12122294
6. Sharma, S.; Cramer, C.S. Selection Progress for Resistance to Fusarium Basal Rot in Short-Day Onions Using Artificial Inoculation Mature Bulb Screening. Horticulturae 2023, 9, 99. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9010099
7. Cramer, C.S.; Mandal, S.; Sharma, S.; Nourbakhsh, S.S.; Goldman, I.; Guzman, I. Recent Advances in Onion Genetic Improvement. Agronomy 2021,11, 482. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11030482
