Jagdeep Sidhu is an Assistant Professor of Root Biology at the University of Missouri, where he leads a team to study cereal root anatomy with a goal to discover and deploy root anatomical phenotypes for edaphic stress conditions including drought, compacted soils, and low fertility. His work bridges fundamental and applied disciplines, spanning in silico biology, developmental biology, physiology, genetics, soil science, computer vision, and breeding. Jagdeep and his collaborators have discovered and genetically mapped novel root anatomical phenotypes regulating root metabolic cost, drought tolerance, and hard soil penetration: cortical parenchyma wall width, cortical cell length, metaxylem vessel length, multiseriate cortical sclerenchyma, and root tip sharpness.
Why roots? Well, Jagdeep thinks “Roots are Remarkably Amazing Creatures!”. Growing up on a farm in Punjab, India, Jagdeep got interested in agriculture, form and function relationships and plant adaptation to stress, especially to frequent droughts the local farmers faced. Since 2016 he has been working on crop roots, first as an MS student at SDSU, followed by PhD and Postdoctoral research at Penn State focused on root traits for resource acquisition under suboptimal water, nitrogen, and phosphorus availability.
Outside of research, Jagdeep enjoys soccer, running, hiking, and yoga.
More about Jagdeep can be found at: https://cafnr.missouri.edu/directory/jagdeep-singh-sidhu/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fJ8j8mYAAAAJ&hl=enJagdeep Sidhu
Jagdeep Sidhu is an Assistant Professor of Root Biology at the University of Missouri, where he leads a team to study cereal root anatomy with a goal to discover and deploy root anatomical phenotypes for edaphic stress conditions including drought, compacted soils, and low fertility. His work bridges fundamental and applied disciplines, spanning in silico biology, developmental biology, physiology, genetics, soil science, computer vision, and breeding. Jagdeep and his collaborators have discovered and genetically mapped novel root anatomical phenotypes regulating root metabolic cost, drought tolerance, and hard soil penetration: cortical parenchyma wall width, cortical cell length, metaxylem vessel length, multiseriate cortical sclerenchyma, and root tip sharpness.
Why roots? Well, Jagdeep thinks “Roots are Remarkably Amazing Creatures!”. Growing up on a farm in Punjab, India, Jagdeep got interested in agriculture, form and function relationships and plant adaptation to stress, especially to frequent droughts the local farmers faced. Since 2016 he has been working on crop roots, first as an MS student at SDSU, followed by PhD and Postdoctoral research at Penn State focused on root traits for resource acquisition under suboptimal water, nitrogen, and phosphorus availability.
Outside of research, Jagdeep enjoys soccer, running, hiking, and yoga.
More about Jagdeep can be found at: https://cafnr.missouri.edu/directory/jagdeep-singh-sidhu/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fJ8j8mYAAAAJ&hl=en
