ESCAIN KIWONDE
Assistant Lecturer, College Of Natural And Applied Sciences
Education:
MSc. in Agriculture (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel),Undergraduate, SUA-Morogoro
Teaching:
Plant physiology
Research:
- Optimizing nutrients for optimal yields with reduced pollution to the environment.
- Studying root zone water and mineral uptake by plants under environmental stress.
- Studying processes involved in decomposition of organic materials, mineralization and transformation of nutrients in soils.
- Greenhouse gas emission from agricultural fields and carbon sequestration
Projects:
Research Title; Investigation of Factors that Negatively Affects Productivity and Marketability of Hass Avocado in Rungwe District, Mbeya. Funder; University of Dar es Salaam
Position; Principle Investigator.
Publications:
- Bar-Tal, A., Kiwonde, E., Kanner, B., Nitsan, I., Shawahna, R., Kurtzman, D. (2020)Nitrogen Fertilization of Plants Irrigated with Desalinated Water: A Study of Interactions of Nitrogen with Chloride. Water, 12, 2354.
- Ginzberg, I., Fogelman, E., Benghal, R., Keren-Kiserman, A., Tamari, O., Levhar, T.,Bar-Tal, A., Kurtzman, D., Kiwonde, E., Shawahna, R,. Nitzan, I., Dar, Z. (2018). The effects of nitrogen fertilization on potato yield and the quality of the skin of the potato tuber. Sadeh VeYerek 319:48-54 (Hebrew).
