Harshita Mangal

Harshita Mangal from India is a PhD student in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. Her research focuses on dissecting complex traits in Sorghum bicolor, with a primary focus on flowering time regulation and nitrogen use efficiency. She works at the intersection of field-based phenotyping, genomics, and computational biology, integrating resequencing data, RNA-seq, and multi-environment field trials. Harshita has led genome-wide (GWAS) and transcriptome-wide (TWAS) association studies to uncover genetic signals underlying key agronomic traits. She is currently working on modeling phenotypic plasticity, identifying regulatory networks through co-expression analysis, and validating SNP datasets for genotype accuracy across large populations.

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Recent Publications

Mangal H, Linders K, Turkus J, Shrestha N, Long B, Kuang X, Cebert E, Torres-Rodriguez JV, Schnable JC (2025) Genes and pathways determining flowering time variation in temperate adapted sorghum. The Plant Journal doi: 10.1111/tpj.70250 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2024.12.12.628249
Shrestha N, Mangal H, Torres-Rodriguez JV, Tross MC, Lopez-Corona L, Linders K, Sun G, Mural RV, Schnable JC (2025) Off-the-shelf image analysis models outperform human visual assessment in identifying genes controlling seed color variation in sorghum. The Plant Phenome Journal doi: 10.1002/ppj2.70013 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2024.07.22.604683