Maninder Kaur completed B.Sc. Biotechnology (Honours) in 2013, M.Sc. Biotechnology in 2016 and PhD Biotechnology in 2022 from the Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She received PAU merit fellowship during her PhD. She worked as Research Fellow in the School of Agricultural Biotechnology (SAB), PAU for about three years (February 26, 2016 to January 2, 2019). She cleared her ICAR-NET by Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board in the year 2019. Presently she is working as a Research Fellow in the Department of Fruit Science, PAU. Maninder has 12 publications to her credit, including 6 book chapters, 2 original research papers, 3 review articles, and 1 short communication.