Dr Mohar Singh has made an outstanding contribution in the management of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in India. His research interest reflects a continuum of high quality basic and strategic research in pulses. He has developed 3 core sets, 2 reference sets, registered 4 genetic stocks, 25 gene sequences, 06 farmer varieties and 2 lentil varieties developed through distant hybridization for rainfed areas of north-western Indian himalaya. Conducted 10 explorations on crop wild relatives (CWRs) and explored >900 wild germplasm of cereals, oilseeds and pulses. He is instrumental to initiate pre-breeding in chickpea and lentil in India for securing national nutritional demand. His pioneer research work on understanding the population structure and diversity assessment of global wild species of lentil and chickpea is very well known. This has led to the identification of most target gene sources in the secondary and tertiary gene pool of chickpea and lentil for biofortification of cultivated varieties including several yield and major biotic and abiotic stress related traits were successfully incorporated in cultivated backgrounds of these two important pulse crops. Successful deployment of marker assisted breeding for introgression of two most promising superior haplotypes with high seed weight and high pod number from cultivated and wild species into high yielding varieties of chickpea for improving their overall yield and productivity. Dr Singh has a distinguished record of high quality peer research publications to his credit including scientific reports, DNA Research, Plant Science, Frontiers in Plant Science, PLOS ONE, Plant Breeding, Crop Science, Euphytica, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, Journal of Experimental Biology, Plant Genetic Resources of Cambridge, Journal of Genetics, Journal of Environmental Biology, Advances in Hort Science, Journal of Genetics and Breeding, and Indian J. Genet. He is recipient of Harbhajan Memorial Award. Dr Salej Sood has made significant contributions in the genetic improvement of small millets and pseudo-cereals through conventional and molecular breeding approaches for the past 9 years. In finger millet he has developed six early and medium maturing, blast resistant high yielding varieties for all finger millet growing states of the country. He characterized the global finger millet and barnyard millet germplasm for agronomic and nutritional traits and registered one genetic stock with high calcium content. He identified new SSRs through cross-transferability studies for genetic diversity and association mapping in both finger millet and barnyard millet. He has identified putative SSRs governing blast resistance in finger millet for the first time. Through genotyping by sequencing of finger millet diverse collection, he for the first time identified SNPs linked to grain yield and its components, calcium content and protein content. He worked in several DST and ICAR funded projects for genetic improvement of small millets. He has also contributed in the potato breeding programme through marker assisted selection of parental lines and selection of hybrids for multiple disease resistance. He is recipient of NAAS associateship 2019, Endeavour Research Fellowship 2018 and several Institutional and other research awards. He has published more than 60 research papers in peer reviewed high rating journals.