Ranjita Thapa

Ranjita Thapa
Ranjita Thapa is a postdoctoral associate in Robbins lab. She has a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India. She completed her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, College station. During her Ph.D. she focused on identification of candidate genes underlying abiotic stress tolerance in rice using quantitative genetics, genomics and transcriptomics approaches. She has experience on Genome-wide association study (GWAS), genome assembly, variant calling and machine learning. In her current role, she is using advanced statistical models and quantitative genetics to estimate genetic parameters, and to model complex genotype-by-environment interactions and development curves in many important crops including alfalfa, wheat, maize, cotton, and soybean using

Publications:

Blair MW* , Thapa R, Edwards M, Damba Y, Wu X, Hickok D, Mackasmiel L, Cortes AJ (2022) Use of Genomics and Phenomics for Diversity Assessment and Implications for Breeding of Grain Amaranths in Americas.  Chapter.  In  M. Farooq (ed.) 'Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food’. Elsevier Press Inc.

Blair MW*, Thapa R+, Edwards M+, Damba Y+, Wu X+, Hickok D+, Mackasmiel L, Cortes AJ (2022) Use of Genomics and Phenomics for Diversity Assessment and Implications for Breeding of Grain Amaranths in Americas.  Chapter. In M. Farooq & Kadambot H.M. Siddique (eds.) 'Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food’. Elsevier Press Inc. , Nov 15, 2022

Thapa R,  Blair MW* (2019) Morphological Assessment of Cultivated and Wild Progenitor Grain Amaranth Diversity.  In Special Issue :  (eds.) P Symkal and E Von Wettburg "Healthy Food Development through Genetic Changes during Crop Domestication.  Agronomy 8(11), 272; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy8110272

Certificates

Ranjita Certificate of Publication