Advances in Crop Science and Technology
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Biography

Dr. Ashish Saxena is currently working as Associate Scientist, Corn Breeder for Dow AgroSciences located at York, NE field station from last 3 years. He pursued his doctoral degree in Plant Breeding and Crop Genetics from Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM during 2009. The research focus for his doctoral degree was “breeding for disease resistance”, and got a minor in “experimental statistics”. He earned MS degree in Vegetable Crop Breeding from the Department of Vegetable Crop, Punjab Agricultural University, India during 2002, and worked with hot pepper on GxE issues on male sterile lines. Meanwhile, He also worked for Nickerson-Zwaan (Limagrain) as Cucumber and Cauliflower breeder, and worked together with a group of international breeders and scientists working on developing cultivars to remove the hunger and malnutrition of world.

Research Interest

•Plant Breeding
•Crop Genetics
•Quantitative Genetics
•Cultivar Evaluation
•Stress tolerance (abiotic and biotic)

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Publications

A Rapid and Sensitive UPLC–ESI-MS/MS Method for Determination of Levonorgestrel by Chemical Derivatization in Human Plasma and its Application to Pharmacokinetic Study

Metabolomics: A Potential Tool for Breeding Nutraceutical Vegetables

Praveen Kumar V, Ashish Saxena, Amol Pawar, Sundara Moorthi Nainar M, Ravikiran V, Ravisekhar Kashibhatta, Pratima Ashawat and Ashawat MS

Research Article: J Anal Bioanal Tech 2014, S6:003

DOI: 10.4172/2155-9872.S6-003

Ashish Saxena and Christopher S Cramer

Review Article: Adv Crop Sci Tech 2013, 1:106

DOI: 10.4172/2329-8863.1000106