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IBRAHIM JUMA

Lecturer, College Of Agricultural Sciences And Food Technology
Education:

PhD in Agricultural Science with Specialization in Plant Breeding (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)

Teaching:

Teaching:

  1. FS 101 – Introduction to Food Microbiology
  2. FS 202 – Advanced Food Microbiology
  3. FS 204 – Food Toxicology
  4. FS 303 – Food Safety and Quality Control

Research:

Research interests:

Food microbiology, Food toxicology, Fungal taxonomy and systematics, Ethnomycology, Pharmacognosy, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Applied microbiology, Plant breeding, Plant phenotyping, Plant genetic diversity analysis, Fruit value chain analysis, weed biology  

Publications:

Recent publications:

  1. Juma I*, Geleta M, Hovmalm HP, Nyomora A, Saripella GV, Carlsson AS, Fatih M, Ortiz R. Comparison of Morphological and Genetic Characteristics of Avocados Grown in Tanzania. Genes. 2021;12:n63. Doi: 10.3390/genes12010063.
  2. Juma I (2020). Production , local trade and diversity of avocado ( Persea americana Mill .) in the southern highlands of Tanzania (Doctoral Thesis, Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae)
  3. Juma I*, Geleta M, Nyomora A, Saripella GV, Hovmalm HP, Carlsson AS, Fatih M, Ortiz R (2020). Genetic diversity of avocado from the southern highlands of Tanzania as revealed by microsatellite markers. Hereditas. 2020; 57:1-2. DOI: 10.1186/s41065-020-00150-0.
  4. Juma I*, Nyomora A, Hovmalm HP, Fatih M, Geleta M, Carlsson AS, Ortiz R (2020). Characterization of Tanzanian avocado using morphological traits. Diversity, 12, 64. Doi: 10.3390/d12020064.
  5. Juma I*, Fors H, Hovmalm HP, Nyomora A, Fatih M, Geleta M, Carlsson AS, Ortiz R (2019). Avocado production and local trade in the southern highlands of Tanzania: A case of an emerging trade commodity from horticulture. Agronomy, 9, 749. Doi: 10.3390/agronomy9110749.
  6. Juma I*, Tibuhwa DD, Mshandete AM and Kivaisi AK (2016). Identification of Tanzanian saprophytic edible mushrooms by In- vitro/In-vivo amplification and sequencing of ITS/LSU regions of ribosomal RNA operon. Tanzania Journal of Science, 42 (1): 109–121.
  7. Juma I*, Tibuhwa DD, Mshandete AM and Kivaisi AK (2016). Assessment of antioxidant potentials of the wild and domesticated saprophytic edible mushrooms from Tanzania. Current Research in Environmental & Applied Mycology, 6 (1): 1–10.

Juma I*, Tibuhwa DD, Mshandete AM and Kivaisi AK (2015). Domestication of Seven Tanzanian Indigenous Saprophytic Edible Mushrooms. International Research Journal of Biological Sciences, 4(12): 1–8.