User:Abdul Jafari Shango/sandbox

Abdul J. Shango is a Crop Scientist specialized in Horticulture born and raised in Dar Es Salaam City of Tanzania. He is currently a Research Associate - Seed Specialist under the Genetic Resources and Seed Unit Department of the World Vegetable Center, based at the regional office for the Eastern and Southern Africa located in Arusha, Tanzania.

Education

Abdul obtained a BSc in Horticulture at the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in 2017. He completed his MSc in Crop Science with a specialization in Horticulture in 2020 at SUA studying the "Extent and Causes of Spike Shedding and Stem Wilting of Pepper (Piper nigrum L.) in Morogoro District, Tanzania".

Research

His academic research focuses on the evolution, and ecology of plant pathogens in the genus Phytophthora and management of the diseases they cause. This pathogen group includes some of the most costly diseases affecting crops and ecosystems.[][] These pathogens have well characterized Effectors to circumvent plant host recognition that in the genus Phytophthora include RxLR, Crinkler and other small secreted proteins.[][][][] Abdul is best known for providing novel insights into how plant pathogens emerge, methods to study pathogen evolution, particularly when populations are clonal, and characterizing the evolutionary history of Phytophthora pathogens. In collaboration with one of his students he developed the concept of heat trees to show differential abundance of species (or other hierarchical data like gene expression) in a tree format.[]

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