selected publications
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- Low-cost technology for recycling agro-industrial waste into nutrient-rich organic fertilizer using black soldier fly.. Waste Management. 119:183-194. 2021
- Exploring Black Soldier Fly Frass as Novel Fertilizer for Improved Growth, Yield, and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Maize Under Field Conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11:574592. 2020
- Insights in the Global Genetics and Gut Microbiome of Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens: Implications for Animal Feed Safety Control.. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11:1538. 2020
- Effects of Host Age and Density on the Performance of Apanteles hemara (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a Larval Endoparasitoid of Spoladea recurvalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae).. Journal of Economic Entomology. 112:2131-2141. 2019
- The Effects of Pest-Resistant Amaranth Accessions on the Performance of the Solitary Endoparasitoid Apanteles hemara (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Against the Amaranth Leaf-Webber Spoladea recurvalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae).. Environmental Entomology. 48:163-172. 2019
- Screening for resistance against major lepidopteran and stem weevil pests of amaranth in Tanzania. Euphytica. 214:182. 2018
- Genetic Diversity of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense in East and Central Africa.. Plant Disease. 102:552-560. 2018
- Determinants of dietary diversity and the potential role of men in improving household nutrition in Tanzania.. PLOS ONE. 12. 2017
- Guidelines for Innovation Platforms in Agricultural Research for Development. Decision support for research, development and funding agencies on how to design, budget and implement impactful Innovation Platforms 2017
- Guidelines for innovation platforms in agricultural research for development: decision support for research, development and funding agencies on how to design, budget and implement impactful innovation platforms 2017
- Integrated pest management in banana and plantain 2017
- Crop-livestock-tree integration in Uganda: the case of Mukono-Wakiso innovation platform 2016
- Non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum endophytes provide field control of nematodes, improving yield of banana (Musa sp.). Biological Control. 74:82-88. 2014
- Impact of tissue culture banana technology on farm household income and food security in Kenya. Food Policy. 45:25-34. 2014
- Performance of tissue-cultured versus sucker-derived East African highland banana (Musa AAA-EA) under high and low input systems in Uganda.. Field Crops Research. 156:313-321. 2014
- Differential gene expression in East African highland bananas ( Musa spp.): Interactions between non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum V5w2 and Radopholus similis. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 82:56-63. 2013
- Potential biological control of lesion nematodes on banana using Kenyan strains of endophytic Fusarium oxysporum. Nematology. 15:101-107. 2013
- Tissue culture banana (Musa spp.) for smallholder farmers: lessons learnt from East Africa 2013
- Heterogeneous information exposure and technology adoption: the case of tissue culture bananas in Kenya. Agricultural Economics. 43:473-485. 2012
- A strategy for banana research and development in Africa: a synthesis of results from the conference banana2008, held 5-9 October 2008, Mombasa, Kenya 2012
- Aflatoxin control projects launched in southern Africa 2012
- Yield Effects of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kenya: Accounting for Selection Bias and the Role of Complementary Inputs. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 63:444-464. 2012
- Endophyte-enhanced tissue culture banana in East Africa; a novel way to combat soil-borne banana pests: Poster presented at IOBC/NTRS Joint Meeting with the International Seminar on Animal and Plant Health (SISA). 3-6 May. Havana, Cuba 2011
- Fungal friends fight the good fight: bio-protection of bananas 2011
- Impact of tissue culture banana technology on farm household income and food security in Kenya. Courant Research Centre; Discussion Paper no. 89 2011
- Information asymmetries and technology adoption: the case of tissue culture bananas in Kenya. Courant Research Centre; Discussion Paper no. 74 2011
- Integrated pest management of Banana 2011
- Micro-organisms; climate change and genetic resources for food and agriculture: state of knowledge, risks and opportunities. Special Information Seminar delivered at FAO, Rome, 16 July 2011 2011
- Towards a healthy banana TC industry in East Africa 2011
- Boiling water treatment: A simple, rapid and effective technique for nematode and banana weevil management in banana and plantain (Musa spp.) planting material. Crop Protection. 29:1478-1482. 2010
- Effect of Fusarium oxysporum endophyte inoculation on the activities of phenylpropanoid pathway enzymes and Radopholus similis numbers in susceptible and tolerant East African Highland bananas. Nematology. 12:469-480. 2010
- Importance of tissue culture for orphan crops 2010
- Dual inoculation of Fusarium oxysporum endophytes in banana: effect on plant colonization, growth and control of the root burrowing nematode and the banana weevil. Biocontrol Science and Technology. 19:639-655. 2009
- Efficacy of chemical and fluorescent protein markers in studying plant colonization by endophytic non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum isolates. Biocontrol. 54:709-722. 2009
- The effects of Beauveria bassiana dose and exposure duration on colonization and growth of tissue cultured banana (Musa sp.) plants. Biological Control. 49:6-10. 2009
- Effect of endophytic Fusarium oxysporum on growth of tissue-cultured banana plants. Journal of Horticultural Science. 2. 2009
- Financing, handling, hardening and marketing of tissue culture-derived planting material through nurseries: the case of banana and plantain in Kenya, Uganda and Burundi 2009
- HOST PLANT RESISTANCE AND TOLERANCE OF MUSA LANDRACES AND HYBRIDS TO NEMATODE INFESTATION. Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics. 92 (Supplement):137-152. 2009
- In vitro screening of endophytic Fusarium oxysporum against banana nematode (Helicotylenchus multicinctus). Journal of Horticultural Science. 2. 2009
- The role of International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in biological control of weeds 2009
- Effect of endophytic Beauveria bassiana on populations of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, and their damage in tissue-cultured banana plants. Entomologia Experimentalis Et Applicata. 129:157-165. 2008
- Endophytic Beauveria bassiana in banana (Musa spp.) reduces banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus) fitness and damage. Crop Protection. 27:1437-1441. 2008
- Virulence of entomopathogenic hypocrealean fungi infecting Anoplophora glabripennis. Biocontrol. 53:517-528. 2008
- Screenhouse and Field Persistence of Nonpathogenic Endophytic Fusarium oxysporum in Musa Tissue Culture Plants. Microbial Ecology. 55:561-568. 2008
- Young scientist on the rise 2008
- Defense-related gene expression in susceptible and tolerant bananas (Musa spp.) following inoculation with non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum endophytes and challenge with Radopholus similis. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 71:149-157. 2007
- Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin as an endophyte in tissue culture banana (Musa spp.).. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 96:34-42. 2007
- Effect of endophytic Fusarium oxysporum on root penetration and reproduction of Radopholus similis in tissue culture-derived banana (Musa spp.) plants. Nematology. 9:599-607. 2007
- Macro-propagation of banana and plantain: training manual 2007
- Microbial control of Asian longhorned beetles - what are fungal bands? 2007
- Organic agriculture in Africa: a critical review from a multidisciplinary perspective 2007
- Effect of Endophytic Fusarium oxysporum on Host Preference of Radopholus similis to Tissue Culture Banana Plants.. Journal of Nematology. 38:455-460. 2006
- Colonisation pattern of nonpathogenic Fusarium oxysporum, a potential biological control agent, in roots and rhizomes of tissue cultured Musa plantlets. Annals of Applied Biology. 149:1-8. 2006
- Improved Colonization of East African Highland Musa Tissue Culture Plants by Endophytic Fusarium oxysporum. Journal of Crop Improvement. 16:81-95. 2006
- Banana tissue culture: benefits for East African farmers 2006
- Biology and integrated pest management for the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) 2006
- Effect of endophytic Fusarium oxysporum on host preference of Radopholus similis to tissue culture banana plants 2006
- Endophyte-enhanced banana tissue culture: technology transfer through public-private partnerships in Kenya and Uganda 2006
- Endophyte-enhanced tissue culture banana in East Africa: towards biological management of the burrowing nematode 2006
- Endophytes: natural biodiversity bolstered to combat banana pests 2006
- Tissue culture and the in vitro environment; enhancing plants with endophytes: potential for ornamentals? 2006
- Development of fungal bands to assist in eradication of Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplohora glabripennis, in the U.S 2005
- Effects of nematode infection and mulching on the yield of plantain (Musa spp., AAB-group) ratoon crops and plantation longevity in southeastern Nigeria. Nematology. 7:531-541. 2005
- Endophyte-enhanced Musa tissue culture plants against banana weevils and nematodes 2005
- Beauveria bassiana against the banana weevi 2004
- Beauveria bassiana against the banana weevil 2004
- Evaluating the efficiency of entomopathogenic fungi against the Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), by using cages in the field 2004
- Inoculation, colonization, and distribution of fungal endophytes in Musa tissue culture plants 2004
- Merging biotechnology with biological control: banana Musa tissue culture plants enhanced by endophytic fungi 2004
- Radopholus similis management in banana: prospects for the use of endophytic nonpathogenic isolates of Fusarium oxysporum 2004
- The potential of fungal endophytes for nematode management in Musa 2004
- Colonization of banana by fungal endophytes 2003
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- Guidelines for innovation platforms in agricultural research for development : decision support for research, development and funding agencies on how to design, budget and implement impactful innovation platforms 2017
- Aflasafe technology in Zambia: upscaling and dissemination through on-farm trials for wide uptake and utilization: proceedings 2015
- Micro-organism genetic resources for food and agriculture and climate change 2015
- Abstracts Submitted for Presentation at the 2013 APS-MSA Joint Meeting 2013
- Adoption and impact of tissue culture bananas in Burundi: an application of a propensity score matching approach 2013
- Trainer's manual: a training course for banana farmers interested in growing tissue culture bananas 2013
- Trainer's manual: a training course on setting up and running a banana tissue culture nursery 2013
- Mycotoxin contamination in Tanzania: quantifying the problem in maize and cassava in households and markets. Proceedings (Poster) of the 7th Conference of the World Mycotoxin Forum and 13th IUPAC International Symposium on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins 2012
- Climate change and micro-organism genetic resources for food and agriculture: state of knowledge, risks and opportunities 2011
- Enhanced protection for tissue cultured banana plants. CGIAR SP-IPM Technical Innovation Brief 2011
- Effect of endophytic Fusarium oxysporum on paralysis and mortality of Pratylenchus goodeyi 2010
- Immunization by fungal endophytes: a novel pest and disease management approach for banana improvement 2008
- Science meets industry 2008
- Antagonism of Paecilomyces spp. isolated from banana (Musa spp.) roots and rhizosphere against Radopholus similis 2007
- Banane, un rapide survol dans le contexte Africain = Banana, a brief overview within an African context 2007
- Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) vuillemin as an endophyte in tissue culture banana (Musa spp.) 2007
- Effect of endophytic Fusarium oxysporum on root penetration and reproduction of Radopholus similis in tissue culture-derived banana (Musa spp.) plants 2007
- Managing plant parasitic nematodes on tissue culture banana using endophytic fungi in East Africa 2007
- Effect of endophytic Fusarium oxysporum on host preference, root penetration and reproduction of Radopholus similis in banana (Musa spp.) tissue culture plants 2006
- Beauveria bassiana and Fusarium oxysporum as endophytes in banana tissue culture plants 2005
- Inhibitory effects of culture filtrates of endophytic Fusarium oxysporum isolates to motile stages of the banana nematode, Radopholus similis Cobb 2005
- Novel application methods for microbial control products: IITA's research against banana weevil and burrowing nematode 2005
- Developing a microbial: choosing the right fungal strain 2004
- The use of fungal bands for control of Asian longhorned beetle 2003
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