Research Areas/Interests
- High-Throughput phenotyping using AI-based imagery tools
- Open-source software development for agricultural researchers using R programming
- Trait discovery and delivery research in maize, cowpea, sorghum, and pearl millet
- Genome editing in rice
- Extra-early pro-vitamin A hybrid maize development
- Breeding for drought tolerance in maize
- Breeding against insect pests and Striga in cowpea and maize
- Breeding for salt and iron toxicity tolerance in rice
- Micropropagation and cryopreservation of vegetatively propagated crops and indigenous medicinal plants