CONSTANTINE SAKALA KWILASA BUSUNGU

Lecture, College Of Agricultural Sciences And Food Technology

Education:

BSc Agric General (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania) MSc Crop Science (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania) PhD Bioresource Production( Kagoshima University, Japan)

Teaching:

Plant breeding, Genetics, Biotechnology

Research:

Plant breeding, mutation breeding, seed science and production, plant biotechnologies, Agro-forestry, plant pest and diseases and horticulture production

Projects:

Community seed production in magu district

Publications:

1.Identification and linkage analysis of rice bacterial blight resistance gene from XM14, a mutant line, 2. Spatial Analysis of Temporal Changes in the Pandemic of Severe Cassava Mosaic Disease in North-Western Tanzania, 3.High-resolution mapping and characterization of xa42, a resistance gene against multiple Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae races in rice 4.Complementing extension officers in technology transfer and extension services: Understanding the influence of media as change agents in modern agriculture.