Harpinder Singh Randhawa, Ph.D.
Mandate: To develop spring wheat cultivars that have better agronomic performance, excellent end use quality and resistance to various biotic and abiotic stresses in western Canada.
Current research and/or projects
• Growing Forward National Wheat Improvement Program Cluster
• Integrated Management of Stripe Rust in Wheat for Alberta
• Development of high yielding CPS wheat cultivars for western Canada
Research and/or project statements
• Spring Wheat and Triticale Cultivar Development and Testing
• Marker Assisted Breeding
• Doubled Haploid Production
• Gene Discovering and Genetic Mapping
• Plant Pathology
• Genetics and Genomics
• New Breeding Tools
Professional activities / interests
Cultivar Registered:
CWSWS Wheat Class:
- Sadash SWS349), AAC Chiffon (SWS408), AAC Indus (SWS427), AAC Paramount (SWS433)
CPSR wheat Class:
- AAC Foray (HY1610), AAC Tenacious (HY1615), AAC Crossfield (HY1632), AAC Entice (HY1627), AAC Castle (HY2021)
CWSP wheat class:
- AAC Innova (GP47), AAC Proclaim (GP80), AAC Awesome (GP151)
CWHW wheat class:
- AAC Whitehead (HW506)
Spring Triticale
- AAC Delight (T225),
Education and awards
Ph.D. (Plant Sciences) 1998 -2002. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
M.Sc. (Plant Breeding) 1991-1993. Department of Plant Breeding, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.
B.Sc. (Honours in Crop Sci.) 1985- 1990.College of Agriculture, Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, India.
Received Gold Harvest Award for Innovation, Collaboration and Service Excellence from the Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (2016)
Additional links
Key publications
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Graf, R.J., Beres, B.L., Laroche, A., Aboukhaddour, R., Humphreys, D.G., Larsen, R.J., Randhawa, H.S., Foroud, N.A., Sidhu, H.S. (2022). AAC Coldfront hard red winter wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 102(3), 785-795. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2022-0043
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Graf, R.J., Beres, B.L., Laroche, A., Aboukhaddour, R., Larsen, R.J., Humphreys, D.G., Randhawa, H.S., Foroud, N.A. (2022). AAC Vortex hard red winter wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 102(2), 468-477. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2021-0142
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Wayne Xu, Andriy Bilichak, Raman Dhariwal, Maria A. Henriquez, Harpinder Randhawa
2021 - View publication details
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.11.463729
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Gill, K.S., Kumar, N., Randhawa, H.S., Murphy, K., Carter, A.H., Morris, C.F., Higginbotham, R.W., Engle, D.A., Guy, S.O., Lyon, D.J., Murray, T.D., Chen, X.M., Schillinger, W.F. (2021). Registration of ‘Resilience CL+’ soft white winter wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations, [online] 15(1), 196-205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20118
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Dovell C, Ryabova D, Badea A, Graf R, Randhawa H, Spaner D, Hucl P, Henriquez MA,*Foroud NA. Development of mutant wheat populations under selection pressure for Fusarium head blight resistance. 41st Annual Meeting of the Plant Pathology Society of Alberta. On-line meeting, November 4-5, 2020.
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Zhang, W., Boyle, K., Brûlé-Babel, A.L., Fedak, G., Gao, P., Robleh Djama, Z., Polley, B., Cuthbert, R.D., Randhawa, H.S., Jiang, F., Eudes, F., Fobert, P.R. (2020). Genetic Characterization of Multiple Components Contributing to Fusarium Head Blight Resistance of FL62R1, a Canadian Bread Wheat Developed Using Systemic Breeding. Frontiers in Plant Science, [online] 11 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.580833
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Gill, K.S., Kumar, N., Randhawa, H.S., Carter, A.H., Yenish, J., Morris, C.F., Baik, B.K., Higginbotham, R.W., Guy, S.O., Engle, D.A., Chen, X.M., Murray, T.D., Lyon, D.J. (2020). Registration of ‘Curiosity CL+’ soft white winter wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations, [online] 14(3), 377-387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20066
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Dhariwal, R., Henriquez, M.A., Hiebert, C., McCartney, C.A., Randhawa, H.S. (2020). Mapping of major fusarium head blight resistance from canadian wheat cv. Aac tenacious. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, [online] 21(12), 1-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21124497
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Randhawa, H.S., Brown, P.D., Fetch, J.M., Fetch, T., Gilbert, J., McCallum, B., Menzies, J., Gaudet, D. (2020). Aac crossfield red spring wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 100(2), 239-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2019-0237
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Graf, R.J., Larsen, R.J., Beres, B.L., Aboukhaddour, R., Laroche, A., Randhawa, H.S., Foroud, N.A. (2020). AAC network hard red winter wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 100(6), 737-746. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2020-0102
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Radhakrishnan, G.V., Cook, N.M., Bueno-Sancho, V., Lewis, C.M., Persoons, A., Mitiku, A.D., Heaton, M., Davey, P.E., Abeyo, B., Alemayehu, Y., Badebo, A., Barnett, M., Bryant, R., Chatelain, J., Chen, X., Dong, S., Henriksson, T., Holdgate, S., Justesen, A.F., Kalous, J., Kang, Z., Laczny, S., Legoff, J.P., Lesch, D., Richards, T., Randhawa, H.S., Thach, T., Wang, M., Hovmøller, M.S., Hodson, D.P., Saunders, D.G.O. (2019). MARPLE, a point-of-care, strain-level disease diagnostics and surveillance tool for complex fungal pathogens. BMC Biology, [online] 17(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-019-0684-y
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Bemister, D.H., Semagn, K., Iqbal, M., Randhawa, H., Strelkov, S.E., Spaner, D.M. (2019). Mapping QTL associated with stripe rust, leaf rust, and leaf spotting in a canadian spring wheat population. Crop Science, [online] 59(2), 650-658. http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2018.05.0348
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Rosa, S.B., Zanella, C.M., Hiebert, C.W., Brûlé-Babel, A.L., Randhawa, H.S., Shorter, S., Boyd, L.A., McCallum, B.D. (2019). Genetic characterization of leaf and stripe rust resistance in the Brazilian wheat cultivar toropi. Phytopathology, [online] 109(10), 1760-1768. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-05-19-0159-R
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Reiss, A., Fomsgaard, I.S., Mathiassen, S.K., Randhawa, H.S., Kudsk, P. (2018). Weed suppression by Canadian spring cereals: relative contribution of competition for resources and allelopathy, 28(6), 183-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00049-018-0267-3
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Rosa S., Langille L., Humphreys G., McCallum B., Fetch T., Randhawa H., Henriquez M.H., Voldeng H., Cummiskey A., Blackwell B., Scheeren P., Valerio I., and Turra C. (2018) Brazilian spring wheat germplasm as source of genetic variability. Poster and abstract presented at 4th Canadian Wheat Symposium, Nov. 19-22, 2018 in Winnipeg, MB.
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Brar, G.S., Dhariwal, R., Randhawa, H.S. (2018). Resistance evaluation of differentials and commercial wheat cultivars to stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) infection in hot spot regions of Canada. European Journal of Plant Pathology, [online] 152(2), 493-502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10658-018-1446-3
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Laroche, A., G.T. Araujo, W. Lu, E. Amundsen, N.K. Newlands, R. Aboukhaddour, J. Larsen, H. Rhandawa, R. Graf, D.A. Gaudet, B.L. Selinger, M. Frick. 2018. Aerobiological Surveillance of Wheat Pathogens. Conference Proceedings of Agronomy Update 2018. January 9-10 Red Deer, AB.pp52
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Graf, R.J., Beres, B.L., Randhawa, H.S., Gaudet, D.A., Laroche, A. (2018). AAC icefield hard white winter wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 98(6), 1395-1405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2018-0084
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Dhariwal, R., Fedak, G., Dion, Y., Pozniak, C., Laroche, A., Eudes, F., Randhawa, H.S. (2018). High density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mapping and quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis in a biparental spring triticale population localized major and minor effect fusarium head blight resistance and associated traits QTL. Genes, [online] 9(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes9010019
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Bokore, F.E., Cuthbert, R.D., Knox, R.E., Randhawa, H.S., Hiebert, C.W., DePauw, R.M., Singh, A.K., Singh, A., Sharpe, A.G., N’Diaye, A., Pozniak, C.J., McCartney, C., Ruan, Y., Berraies, S., Meyer, B., Munro, C., Hay, A., Ammar, K., Huerta-Espino, J., Bhavani, S. (2017). Quantitative trait loci for resistance to stripe rust of wheat revealed using global field nurseries and opportunities for stacking resistance genes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics (TAG), [online] 130(12), 2617-2635. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-017-2980-7
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Research facility
Expertise
Affiliations
• Western Director, Canadian Society of Agronomy
• Associate Editors, Canadian Journal of Plant Science
• Served in committees for hiring new scientists in the department
• Served on Scientific Committees, reviewed many scientific articles
• Member of Canadian Society of Agronomy
• Crop Science Society of America
• Member of Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale
• Member of Canadian Seed Growers Association