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Morufat Balogun

Department of Crop Protection & Environmental Biology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Biography

Dr. Morufat Oloruntoyin Balogun is a Geneticist. Norman E. Borlaug International Science and Technology Fellow for Women in Science, United States Department of Agriculture (2005). Winner, 2012 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund of State Department on 'Countering oil spills in the Niger Delta with local plants'. She is a Consultant Tissue Culture Specialist of the ‘Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA project) at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.

Publications

The Response of White Yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir) Tuber Portions to Positive Selection for Quality Seed Yam Production

The production of yams is constrained by high cost and unavailability of clean planting materials, pests and diseases. Vegetative propagation has also caused a build of up diseases, reported to cause up to 80% yield reduction due to scarcity of quality declared seeds. Planting of disease-free material has been found to be effective in reducing dise... Read More»

Daniel Osabhie Aihebhoria, Beatrice Aighewi and Morufat Balogun

Research Article: Adv Crop Sci Tech 2017, 5: 294

DOI: 10.4172/2329-8863.1000294

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