Fargo, N.D. – Prem P. Jauhar, research geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, Northern Crop Science Laboratory and plant sciences adjunct professor at NDSU, has been elected as a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India for 2012.

Jauhar also was elected Fellow of the Crop Science Society of America in 1995, the American Society of Agronomy in 1996 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. 

Additionally, Jauhar’s diverse research has been published in a variety of journals, including Nature (London), Chromosoma, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Genome, Plant Breeding, Genetica, Hereditas, the Journal of Heredity and Crop Science. Since 1990, he has served as the associate editor of the Journal of Heredity, an international journal of genetics.