Sugarcane Breeding, Germplasm evaluation and conservation of native crops of Uttarakhand

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Research Projects (On-going)

1. Programme Coordinator in project “All India Coordinated Research Project on Sugarcane”
2. PI in DST project “Empowering farming communities for conservation of plant genetic wealth of Uttarakhand through community participation, protection of landraces and farmers varieties and benefit sharing”

Research Projects (Completed)

1. Nodal Officer (PI for the centre) in project “Development of organic package of practices for various farming situations of Uttaranchal” funded by Uttarakhand Govt.
2. Co-PI in project “Popularization of Bio-Fertilizers and Bio-Agents for Sustainable Crop Production through Colonization of Vermi-Compost” funded by NABARD
3. PI in NMHS project “Collection, evaluation and conservation of native crops germplasm from Uttarakhand hills and pre-breeding through community participation” funded by GBPNIHESD, Kosi under MoEFCC

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1. Tabassum, Jeena, A. S., Negi, A.S., and Koujalagi, D. 2020. Morphological evaluation & variability analysis of Brassica rapa germplasm accessions collected from Uttarakhand Hills. Green farming. 11(1): 72-74.
2. Tabassum, Jeena, A. S., Negi, A.S., and Koujalagi, D. 2020. Correlation and path coefficient analysis on different yield components in Brassica rapa germplasm accessions collected from Uttarakhand hills. Green farming. 11(2&3):135-138


3. Tabassum, Jeena, A. S., Negi, A.S., and Koujalagi, D. 2020. Genetic diversity analysis of Brassica rapa germplasm collected from Uttarakhand hills. J. Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. 9(2): 2398-2401.


4. Kumar, A., Jeena, A.S., Tabassum and Chawla, H.S. 2020. Screening of Finger millet germplasm for drought tolerance based on morphological, biochemical and physiological traits. Frontiers in Crop Improvement 8(1): 20-30.


5. Jeena, A.S., Ankit, Tabassum and Rohit. 2020. Extent of nutraceutical micronutrient content in finger millet and barnyard millet germplasm collected from Uttarakhand. Frontiers in Crop Improvement 8(1): 63-67.


6. Ranjana, Jeena, A.S., Kumar, A. and Rohit. 2020. Genetic analysis of barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea (Roxb.) Link) germplasm collected from Uttarakhand hills for Morphological Traits. Int. J. Curr. Microbiol. App. Sci. 9(3): 1001-1010


7. Kumar, A., Singh, N.K., Jeena, A.S., Jaiswal, J.P., and Verma S.S. 2020. Evaluation of teosinte derived maize lines for drought tolerance. Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources. 33(1):60-67


8. Tabassum, Jeena, A. S., Negi, A.S., and Koujalagi, D. 2020. Morphological evaluation & variability analysis of Brassica rapa germplasm accessions collected from Uttarakhand Hills. Journal of Oilseed Brassicas. 11(2): 139-142.


9. Jeena, A.S. Singh, S.P., Tabassum, Koujalagi, Deepak and Kumar, Ankit. 2019. Morphological characterization of finger millet (Eleusine coracana L. Gaertn.) germplasm collected from Uttarakhand. Frontiers in Crop Improvement. 7 (1): 19-23.

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Programme Coordinator, AICRP-Sugarcane GBPUAT,Pantnagar (Since May 17, 2019)

Officer Incharge, Sugarcane Research Centre, Kashipur (Since August 2018)

Purchase Officer, GeM-Directorate of Experiment Station (GBPUAT), Pantnagar (Since Feb. 10, 2018)

E-Tender Officer, Directorate of Experiment Station (GBPUAT), Pantnagar (Since Nov. 17, 2017)

Additional Dean Student Welfare (From August 20,2015 to Dec. 22, 2016)

Warden, Shivalik Bhawan Hostel (From July 21, 2012 to Oct.19, 2015)

Warden, Shastri Bhawan Hostel (From Oct 31, 2012 to Nov 23, 2012)

Nodal Officer, Pantnagar Center fot Plant Genetic Resources, Pantnagar (Since March 31, 2012 to July,2018)

Manager, Bal Niliyam and Bal Mangalam Schools,Pantnagar (Since Jan 29, 2015 to Sept 26, 2017)

Associate Coordinator, Rural Agricultural Work Experience programme (UG Course, 2011-14)

Staff counselor, Volleyball and Indoor games (M) (2017)

Staff counselor, Volleyball and Tennis (M) (2018)

Staff counselor, Volleyball and Indoor games (M) (2019)

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Member of Editorial Board, Frontiers of Crop Improvement (Astha Foundation, Meerut)

Executive Counselor, Progressive Research –An International Journal (Society for Scientific Development in Agriculture and Technology, Meerut)

Member of Agricultural Systems and Management (FAD-22) of Food and Agriculture Department of Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi.

Review Editor, Pantnagar Journal of Research (G B Pant University of Ag. & Tech., Pantnagar)

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Received appreciation certificate for Best Presentation at zonal level in Annual Zonal Workshop of KVKs held at NDUA&T, Kumarganj (Faizabad) U.P.

Received fellow award from Society of Scientific Development in Agriculture and Technology, Meerut (2014)

Officiated as Chairman / Judge in Poster session (Ag. Sci.) during National conference on Emerging Problems and Recent Advances in Applied Sciences: Basic to Molecular Approaches, Feb. 08-09, 2014. SSDAT and CCS University, Meerut.

Officiated as Co-Chairman in the First Technical session (For Status paper) on Breeding Strategies for future thrust at National Symposium on “Challenges, Opportunities and Innovative Approaches in Sugarcane: Agriculture, Bio-energy and Climate Change” Dec. 21–23, 2016, U.P. Council of Sugarcane Research, Shahjahanpur

Officiated as Chairman / Judge in Technical session I (GPB & Plant Biotech.) during International Symposium on Global Research Initiative for Sustainable Agriculture & Allied Science (GRISAAS 2017), Dec. 02-04, 2017 SSDAT Meerut and Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap Univ. of Ag. & Tech., Udaipur (Rajsthan)

Received Distinguish scientist award from Astha Foundation, Meerut. (2017)

Acted as Convener in Session No.12 during International conference on Innovative horticulture and value chain management, May 28-31, 2019. GBPUAT, Pantnagar

Received Outstanding Achievement award from Astha Foundation, Meerut. (2019)

Letter of Commendation from Course Director, Short course on “Advances in Sugarcane mechanization technologies to reduce cost of operation and drudgery for enhancing farmers’ income” held at ICAR-IISR, Lucknow

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