Agrotechnology

Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria

Biography

Aniefiok Ndubuisi Osuagwu completed his research in Evaluation of Genetic Diversity in Aerial Yam (Dioscorea bulbifera L) using Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) Markers, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria Dr. (Mrs) Osuagwu is a Senior lecturer in the Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Calabar , Calabar. She obtained a Ph.D in Genetics and Plant breeding from UNICAL in the year 2002. Her research interest is in germplasm collection, conservation and genetic improvement of underutilized crop plants of Southern Nigeria for increased food availability and sustainable development in the country.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Evaluation of Genetic Diversity in Aerial Yam (Dioscorea bulbifera L) using Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) Markers
  Author(s): Aniefiok Ndubuisi Osuagwu* and Edem UL
  
  Dioscorea bulbifera is an underutilised crop of the family Dioscoreacea widely distributed throughout the tropical and sub Saharan regions of West Africa. Twenty five D. bulbifera accessions from West Africa held in International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) germ plasm bank were screened for genetic diversity using ten microsatellite loci in 25 ul volume reaction in a 96 well micro titre plate PCR reactions. The reaction mixture consisted of 3 µl of 10 ng/µl template DNA, 2µl of 2.5 mM DNTPs, 1 µl of 2.5 mM MgCl2, 1µ each of forward and reverse primers, 1 µl of DMSO4, 0.1 µl of 5 µg/µl Taq DNA polymerase (Invitrogen) and 3 µl of 10 ng/µl DNA. The total reaction volume was.. View more»
  

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