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Assistant Professor

Personal information

Name  

Muluken Bantayehu Nigatie

Address

P.O.Box 5501  Bahir Dar (Ethiopia) 

Mobile

+251-915947917

E-mail(s)

Mulban7@yahoo.com or muluken.bantayehu@bdu.edu.et

Nationality

Ethiopian 

Gender

Male 

 

Education

 

  • Pre doctorial (Research Fellow) in Bioscience engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. 2013
  • Master of Science in Plant Breeding, Haramaya University, Haramaya, Ethiopia, 2007 (Graduated with very great distinction)
  • Bachelor of Science in Plant Sciences, Haramaya University, Haramaya, Ethiopia, 2002 (Graduated with great distinction)

 

Work Experience

  1. Assistant professor of Plant Sciences (Plant Breeding),  Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia (September 2013-up to now)
  2. Associate researcher, Plant resources improvement research directorate, Adet Agriculture Research Center, Ethiopia (Since December 2002 to September 2013)
   

Language 

Mother tongue(s)

Amharic

Other language(s)

English (proficient user)           

 

Research outputs/ Community outreaching services)

 

  • Estimation of postharvest loss of Fruits and its causes
  • Study of postharvest quality traits in Banana Varieties
  • Development and release of one malting barley and three food barley varieties targeted to Northwestern Ethiopia
  • Participatory adaptation and extension of improved varietal technologies to producers of Yilmana densa woreda, South and North Gonder zone in collaboration with the Research extension department of Adet Agricultural Research  Center
  • Developed production technology manual and fliers for community use 
  • Provided training on seed and grain production techniques of major cereal crops to seed multipliers and producers of the Northwest Ethiopia
  • Committee member in study, development and planning document of the Amhara Seed Enterprise (ASE)

Computer skills and competences

 

 

 

 

 

Other Trainings

Certificate in basic skills in computer (MS-Dos, WINDOWS 98-2000-XP, MS-WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS and PowerPoint,)

Statistical softwares: SAS, Cropstat, Agrobase, NCSS, Mintab, SPSS and MSTATC, Bioedit, Primer Input

Participation certificate in strategic planning and management

Participation certificate in Field Book: Software for the Managing a Maize Breeding Program organized by the national maize research project in  collaboration with CIMMYT-Ethiopia 

Driving licence

 

 

Publication(s)

Muluken Bantayehu & Melkamu Alemayehu .2024.Stability of fruit ripening traits of banana (Musa species) across postharvest environments, Heliyon, Volume 10, Issue 17 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e37143

Gebeyaw Achenef Hailea, Muluken Bantayehu. 2024. Analysis of genotype by environment interaction effect on faba bean (Vicia faba) elite genotype yield performance and stability in Ethiopia, Ecological Genetics and Genomics, 34, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egg.2024.100311

Abebe Assefa , Dereje Mekonnen, Muluken Bantayehu and Fentaw Asres, 2025. Genetic variability and association of traitsin common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.)genotypes in Sekota, North Eastern Ethiopia, CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 6-1, https://doi.org/10.1079/ab.2025.0003

Ashebr Baye, Baye Berihun, Muluken Bantayehu & Bitwoded Derebe, 2020. Genotypic and phenotypic correlation and path coefficient analysis for yield and yield-related traits in advanced bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) lines, Cogent Food & Agriculture, 6: 1-17.

Muluken Bantayehu & Melkamu Alemayehu.2020. Efficacy of Postharvest Technologies on Ripening Behavior and Quality of Banana Varieties Grown in Ethiopia, International Journal of Fruit Science, Vol.20:1, 59-75,  DOI: 10.1080/15538362.2019.1583623 

Bantayehu, M., Alemayehu, M., Abera, M. and Bizuayehu, S. (2019) ‘Estimation of pre and postharvest losses of tropical fruits in Ethiopia’, Int. J. Postharvest Technology and Innovation, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp.46–56.

Muluken Bantayehu, Melkamu Alemayehu, Mirkuz Abera and Solomon Bizuayehu .2017. Postharvest Losses Assessment of Tropical Fruits in the Market Chain of North Western Ethiopia. Food Science and Quality Management, Vol.66. pp. 13-24

Muluken Bantayehu, 2013. Study on malting barley genotypes under diverse Agroecologies of north western Ethiopia, African journal of Plant  Science, Vol.7(11) , pp. 548-557  

Muluken Bantayehu, Jemal Esmael and Yihenewu Awoke, 2013. Additive main effects and multiplicative interaction analysis and clustering of environments and genotypes in malting barley, African journal of agricultural research, Vol. 8(18), pp. 1896-1904. 

Muluken Bantayehu and Habtamu Zelleke and Alemayehu Assefa, 2010. Genotype by Environment Interaction and Stability Analysis for Yield and Quality  Traits of Malting Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) across North Western Ethiopia, Ethiopian Journal of Agricultural Sciences,  Volume 20, Number ½, 168-178p.

Muluken Bantayehu, 2009. Analysis and correlation of stability parameters in malting barley, African Crop Science Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 145 – 153

Muluken Bantayehu and Jemal Esmael, 2011. Achievements in food barley breeding research in the early production systems of north west Ethiopia, in Mulatu, B. and Grando, S. (eds). Barley Research and Development in Ethiopia. Proceedings of the 2nd National Barley Research and Development Review Workshop. 28-30 November 2006, 

      HARC, Holetta, Ethiopia. ICARDA, PO Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria. pp xiv + 391. Pp 83- 91

Muluken Bantayehu, Jemal Esmael and Yihenew Awoke.2014, Phenotypic performance and grain yield stability of malting barley genotypes  across north western Ethiopia, Tilahun tadesse and Yeshitila Merene (eds). 2014. Proceeding of the 6th and 7th annual regional conference on completed crops research activities, Amhara Agricultural Research  Institute, Bahirdar, Ethiopia pp182-190

Muluken Bantayehu and Melkamu Alemayehu .2017 Ripening Behavior of  Banana Varieties grown in North western Ethiopia in different temperatures and plastic packagings, , Melkamu Alemayehu (eds) . Proceeding of the 4th annual national conference on agriculture and environmental management for sustainable development , Bahirdar  University, Bahirdar, Ethiopia 

 

 

 

 

 

Department
Plant Science