Name: 
Dr. Tej Narayan Bhusal
Designation: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
Genetics and Plant Breeding
Email: 
[email protected]
Mobile: 
+977-9845179237
Qualification: 
PhD (Genetics and Plant Breeding), Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Science, Allahabad, India (2016)
Professional Experiences: 
* Assistant Professor, Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU), Nepal (May 2018 - date)
* Assistant Professor, IAAS-Lamjung, Nepal (July 2009- March 2013)
Scientific Publications: 

1. Bhusal, T.N., L.P. Amgain and N.R. Devekota. 2009. Evaluation of CSM-CERES-Maize Model and Sensitivity Analysis of Open Pollinated Varieties of Maize at Rampur, Chitwan. Journal of Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, 30: 63-72 [ISSN 2091-0134]

2. Bhusal, T.N., A. Lamsal and L.P. Amgain. 2010. Simulations of Nitrogen Dynamism in Maize and Rice by Using CSM-CERES Maize and Rice Models under Chitwan, Nepal. Agronomy Journal of Nepal, 1: 94-102 [ISSN 2091-0649]

3. Bhusal, T.N. and J. Timsina. 2010. Effect of Weather Years and Climatic Parameters on Yield of Maize Varieties under Sub-tropical Condition of Nepal. Nepal Journal of Science and Technology, 11: 17-24

4. Synrem, G. J., N. R. Rangare, I. Myrthong, T. N. Bhusal and D. M. Bahadure. 2015. Estimation of heterosis for seed yield and yield attributing traits in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea L. Czern & Coss.). Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 6(1): 274-281.

5. Synrem, G. J., S. Marker, T.N. Bhusal and L. N. Kumar. 2015. Genetic diversity for grain yield and physiological traits in maize (Zea mays L.). Geobios, 42: 22-32.

6. Bhusal, T. N., G. M. Lal, S. Marker and G. J. Synrem. 2016. Discrimination of maize (Zea mays L.) inbreds for morpho-physiological and yield traits by D2 statistics and principal component analysis (PCA). Asian Journal of Bioscience, 11 (1): 77-84 [ISSN 0973-4899].

7. Bhusal, T. N. and G. M. Lal. 2016. Molecular divergence of maize (Zea mays L.) as revealed by DNA microsatellites. The Bioscan, 11 (2): 1147-1151.

8. Bhusal, T.N., G. M. Lal, S. Marker and G. J. Synrem. 2017. Genetic variability and traits association in maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes. Annals of Plant and Soil Research 19(1): 59-65.

9. Bhusal, T.N. and G. M. Lal. 2017. Relationship among Heterosis, Combining Ability and SSR based Genetic distance in Single Cross Hybrids of Maize (Zea mays L.). VEGETOS 30 (2) doi: 10.5958/2229-4473.2017.00132.X

10. Bhusal, T.N. 2011a. CSM-CERES-Maize model (DSSAT v 4.0): calibration, validation and simulation of maize growth and yield. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany [ISBN 978-3-8443-0272-1]

11. Bhusal, T.N. 2011b. Probit and Logit Analysis: Application to discrete dose response data. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany [ISBN 978-3-8443-9550-1]

Research Interests: 
* Marker assisted Selection
* Molecular characterization of plants, omics technology
* Biostatistics and bioinformatics
* Agro-biodiversity conservation, management and utilization
* On farm diversity assessment and evaluation
* QTL mapping
* Genome wide association studies
* CRISPR gene editing
* Understanding molecular mechanism of resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses