Education: B.Sc. (Agri.), M.Sc. (Plant Breeding and Genetics) and Ph.D. (Plant Breeding and Genetics)

Positions held: Plant Breeder, PAU, Ludhiana (2013-2015, Plant Breeder, KVK, Fatehgarh Sahib (2015-2018), Plant Breeder, PAU, Ludhiana (2018-2022), Pulse Breeder (2022 – till date)

Field of Specialization: Plant Breeding

Research Interests:Pre-breeding (Inter-specific hybridization) and Breeding (conventional and molecular) for biotic and abiotic stresses of soybean, rajmash and fieldpea,

Projects:

1. All India Coordinated Research Project on Soybean.
2. Breeding pulse crops for higher yield, quality and stability of performance.

Selected Research Publications (maximum up to 5):

1. Mandahal K, Kaur L, Dhillon N, Singh I, Singh P and Gill B (2024). Recombinant Breeding To Generate Transgressive Segregants For Grain Yield And Component Traits In Soybean(MS No. ARJ 5369), Agricultural Research Journal, (NAAS rating = 5.16). (Accepted)
2. Dash T, Dhillon N, Bindra S, Kaur L and Gill B (2024). Studies On Intervarietal Rils Generated From Cross Between Vegetable X Grain Type Soybean (Ms No. Arj 5071). Agricultural Research Journal, (NAAS rating = 5.16). (Accepted)
3. Navjot Kaur Dhillon, Sudhir Kumar Mishra and Harinder Singh (2021) Assessment of Day Time Anthesis Warming on Rice Cultivars under Varying Textured Sites of South-Western Punjab, India. Agricultural Sciences 12: 112-127. (NAAS rating: 3.81)
4. Dhillon NK and Gosal SS (2018) In vitro regeneration by somatic embryos of maize inbreds using mature seeds. Int J Curr Microbial App Sci 7(11):725-33. (NAAS rating: 3.58)
5. Dhillon NK and Gosal SS (2017) Histology of SomaticEmbryos from Maize Embryo Cultures. Journal of Cell and Tissue Research. Journal of Cell and Tissue Research. 13(1): 3571-3576. (NAAS rating: 8.79)

Awards/Honours/Distinctions:

• Merit scholarship holder in M.Sc. (Plant Breeding and Genetics), PAU,Ludhiana.