UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
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CHARLES OLAMBO JOSEPH

Senior Lecturer, College Of Agricultural Sciences And Food Technology
Education:

1. PhD Crop Genetics and Breeding 2015 -Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) China 2. MSc. Crop Genetics and Breeding 2010–Huazhong Agricultural University (HAU)-China 3. BSc. Food Science and Technology,2005 Sokoine University of Agriculture (

Teaching:

Genetics, Breeding, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, plant physiology, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Precision Agriculture, experimental design and data analysis, and Research Methodology.

Research:

  1. Sustainable Agriculture and climate change adaptation (biochar, biologicals, biocontrol, biopestcides, biostimulants, cropping systems)
  2. Crop Variety/seed development (biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, yield and quality performance).
  3. Agriculture biotechnology (Genetic engineering and GMO)
  4. Agricultural ecology (Agricultural organisms, populations, communities,and their interactions for sustainable production, improved resource conservation, and minimized environmental impact)
  5. Agricultural biosecurity (build capacity in pests and diseases detection, diognosis and prevent outbreaks in farms and fields

Projects:

  1. PI- UDSM Competitive research grant 2018-2019: Alternate

Wetting and Drying Irrigation System: its implications on health Benefits Associated with Rice Cultivation Under at Lumuma Irrigation Scheme Kilosa District.

  1. PI-UDSM Competitive research grant 2020-2021:  Assessment of the magnitude and relationship among variables affecting grain yield, water use efficiency and estimation of global warming potential in alternative wetting and drying irrigation.
  2. PI-UDSM Competitive research grant 2022-2023:  Macroalgae based biostimulants production for improving agricultural productivity and environmental adaption and mitigation.
  3. Co Researcher UDSM Competitive research grant 2022-2023: Honey bee pollination for improving sunflower oil production and livelihood in Singida Tanzania

Publications:

  1. Charles Joseph, Emanuel M Sangu, Stephen S Nyandoro (2022). Effects of alternate wetting and drying irrigation on the bioaccumulation of selected micronutrients in the harvested rice grains jehs 10(5) 150-164
  2. Marco Baluhya and Charles Joseph Bacterial Growth Inhibitory Effects of Calotropis procera’s Latex, Leaves and Roots Extracts. Tanz. J. Sci. 2021 47(2):648-654
  3. Charles Joseph Genetic associations between yield component traits and bacterial leaf blight resistance in rice (O. sativa L.) Afr. J. Food Agric. Nutr. Dev. 2020; 20(2): 15549-15568
  4. Charles Joseph Overlapping quantitative trait loci indication of similarity of rice response to various stresses, Afric Crop Sci. J. 2019. 26(4): 477 – 490
  5. Charles Joseph Dissecting the quantitative variations of threshability in rice (Oryza sativa L.) Agro-Science, 2019 18 (1): 22–29.
  6. Jianlong Xu, Long Hoang; Chunchao Wang; Afif Nafisah; Charles Joseph; Wenzhong Zhang; Zhikang Li. Jointly mapping and allele mining for leaf rolling in rice (Oryza sativa L.) PLoSONE 2016. 11(7): e0158246.doi:10.1371/ journal. pone.0158246.
  7. Charles Joseph Genetic Variation, Heritability and Relationship between Inbred Lines Performances under Drought Stress and Irrigation Conditions in Rice. Amer J Exper Agric.  2015, 7(5): 294-307.
  8. XIANG Chao, Charles Joseph, ZHANG Qiang, PANG Yun-long and GAO Yong-ming, Genetic Dissection of Low Phosphorus Tolerance Related Traits Using Selected Introgression Lines in Rice. Rice Sci, 2015, 22(6): 264-274
  9.  Charles Joseph, Zhen Chen, Dong Ma, Han-lai Zeng Analysis of short photo-periodic sensitive genic male sterility and molecular mapping of rpms3(t) gene in rice (Oryza sativa L.) using SSR markers. Genes & Genomics 2011 33: 509-515