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China

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Crop improvement through conventional & molecular breeding, agric technology development & dessimination, bioinformatics

Profile Summary

I have worked across diverse sector of agriculture (extension, research and academics). Currently working on several projects Soybean Seed quality traits Improvement Program, Genomics for improved total soluble solutes in Tomato, Soybean germplasm characterization and utilization, Comparative genomics in soybean & Functional genomics. I have much knowledge and experience in using R, SAS, SPSS, GenStats, Statistix, Statgraphics, Minitab, Kyplot, Stata, GraphPad Prism, advance use of excel, several bioinformatics tools, TASSELS, GAPIT, mrMLM.GUI (R package) etc.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Plant Breeding & Genetics
• ☆ Genomics
• ☆ Agricultural Technology
• ☆ Plant Biotechnology

Services

• Writing
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Work Experience

PhD Scholar

Nanjing Agricultural University

September 2017 - Present

PhD Scholar

Nanjing Agricultural University

September 2017 - Present

Project Administrator

USAID/IITA/SARI Cowpea Outscaling Project

September 2015 - January 2020

Municipal Development Officer-Agric Extension

Ministry of Food and Agriculture

December 2010 - January 2020

Project Administrator

USAID/IITA/SARI Cowpea Outscaling Project

September 2015 - September 2017

Municipal Development Officer -Extension

Ministry of Food and Agriculture

December 2010 - August 2015

National Service Personel/CASUAL TECHNICAL OFFICER

Cococa Swellon Shoot Virus Control Unit (COCOBOD)

September 2008 - November 2011

Education

PhD Crop Genetics and Breeding (yet to graduate)

Nanjing Agricultural University

September 2017 - Present

MSc Agronomy

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

August 2020 - September 2020

BSc Agriculture

University of Cape Coast

June 2004 - May 2008

Certifications

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Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Benjamin Karikari, Javaid A. Bhat, Nicholas N. Denwar, Tuanjie Zhao(2020). Exploring the genetic base of the soybean germplasm from Africa, America and Asia as well as mining of beneficial allele for flowering and seed weight . 3 Biotech. 10. (5). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

(2019). Deciphering the Genetic Architecture of Plant Height in Soybean Using Two RIL Populations Sharing a Common M8206 Parent . Plants.

(2019). Utilization of Interspecific High-Density Genetic Map of RIL Population for the QTL Detection and Candidate Gene Mining for 100-Seed Weight in Soybean . Frontiers in Plant Science.

(2019). Genome-Wide Detection of Major and Epistatic Effect QTLs for Seed Protein and Oil Content in Soybean Under Multiple Environments Using High-Density Bin Map . International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

(2015). Effect of Phosphorus Fertilizer on Dry Matter Production and Distribution in Three Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) Varieties in Ghana . Journal of Plant Sciences.

(2015). Growth, Nodulation and Yield Response of Cowpea to Phosphorus Fertilizer Application in Ghana . Journal of Agronomy.