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Abimbola OLUWARANTI

Country of origin: Nigeria Currently in: Nigeria, Ile-Ife General field of specialization: Agricultural Sciences
Academic Background

Degrees

2005 Master Other
2011 Doctorate Other
Research and Profession

Current Research Activities

Agricultural Sciences

Development of Improved Varieties of Crops, tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses

Research Keywords: 
Crop production
Breeding and Genectics
molecular biology

Publications resulting from Research: 


i. Oluwaranti A. and Ajayi S. A. (2008) Determination of Moisture Content of Maize seed: Comparison of two Moisture meters with the oven method. Ife Journal of Agriculture vol. 23(1): 33-39.

ii. A. Oluwaranti, M.A.B. Fakorede and B. Badu-Apraku. (2008) Grain yield of maize varieties of different maturity groups under marginal rainfall conditions. Journal of Agricultural Sciences vol. 53(3): 183-19.

iii. Mathew Oziegbe, Julius O. Faluyi and Abimbola Oluwaranti (2010) Effect of seed age and soil texture on the germination of some Ludwigia species (Onagraceae) in Nigeria. ActaBot. Croat. 69(2), 249-257.

iv. R.O. Akinwale, M.A.B. Fakorede, B.Badu-Apraku and A.Oluwaranti (2014) Assessing the Usefulness of GGE Biplot as a statistical Tool for Plant Breeders and Agronomists. Cereal Research Communications 42(3). Pp. 534-546.

v. Oluwaranti A. M.A.B. Fakorede, R.O. Akinwale, T. Popoola, A. Menkir and B. Badu-Apraku (2015) Drought tolerance at the vegetative and maturity growth stages of maize in a rainforest location of South-West Nigeria. Australian Journal of Agriculture Research 5(1):1-11

vi. Oluwaranti A., M. A. B. Fakorede, A. Menkir and B. Badu-Apraku (2015) Climatic conditions requirements of maize germplasm for flowering in the rainforest Agro-ecology of Nigeria. J. Plant Breed. Crop Sci.7(6):170-176
vii. Oluwaranti A., M.A.B. Fakorede and F.A. Adeboye (2015) Maturity groups and phenology of maize in a rainforest location. International Journal of Agriculture Innovations and Research 4(1): 124-127

viii. A. Oluwaranti, M.A.B. Fakorede, A. Menkir, A. Akinyooye, A.O. Bello (2015) Evalaution of late maturing maize varieties for late season planting in a rainforest location of Nigeria. Int. J. Agri. Res. 7(4), 111-116.
ix. Akinwale R.O., M.A.B. Fakorede, A. Oluwaranti, B. Badu-Apraku and I.I. Adejumobi (2016) Selection Criteria for drought tolerance at the vegetative phase in early maturing maize. African Journal of Biotechnology 15:816 – 822.
x. Ajani O.T., A. Oluwaranti and A.I. Awoniyi (2016) Assessment of water-use efficiency of drought tolerant maize (Zea mays L.) varieties in a rainforest location. Journal of Agriculture and Ecology Research 8(3):1-10.
xi. Oluwaranti A. and O.T. Ajani (2016) Evaluation of drought tolerant maize varieties under drought and rain-fed conditions. A rainforest location. Journal of Agricultural Science 8(7):153-162



Current profession

Current professional activities type: 
Research
Teaching
My current professional activities are i Development of improved varieties of maize that are resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. ii. Teaching of plant breeding and genetic courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels

Workshop and Conference Attended

2017 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Cambridge-Africa Molecular Laboratory Training Workshop
2017 African Academy of Science in Nairobi, Kenya.. CIRCLE Visiting Fellowship Completion Workshop at the
2016 Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Makerere/Purdue Genomics Workshop
2011 Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Grant Seeking workshop for academic staff
2007 IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria. Training workshop on Quantitative genetics and related statistics course for African scientists
2007 IITA-Ibadan Nigeria. Training Workshop on Statistical Computing for Breeders, Agronomists and Social Scientists

Affiliations

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Presentation given

2016
Effect of Pollination Methods on Seed Production, Growth and Grain Yield of Progenies of an Early-Maturing Maize Popilation
Phoenix, AZ, of United States of America
Event: International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, ASA, Crop Science Society of America, CSSA and Soil Science Society of America, SSSA.
2016
Molecular characterization via SSR markers of elite maize inbred lines for drought tolerance.
Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala, Uganda
Event: National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) - Makerere University (MAK) Joint Agricultural Dissemination Conference
2016
Impacts of climate change on the performance of elite maize parental lines evaluated in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda
Event: 11th International Conference of the African Association of Remote sensing of the Environment

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