Dr Takayoshi Ishii
Principal Investigator
Dr Takayoshi Ishii is the group leader of the Plant Cytogenetics group at Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, Japan since 2018. He has a PhD from The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori University, Japan. Dr Ishii was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany, in the group of Dr Houben about the manipulation of centromere for haploid production in crop species. Dr Ishii is interested in basic and applied aspects of the genome elimination phenomenon in hybrids.
Dr Offiong Ukpong Edet
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Offiong Ukpong Edet is a Plant Geneticist and Molecular Breeder, with a keen interest in utilizing applicable techniques of molecular cytogenetics and DNA markers to improve crops’ yields and resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses. During his PhD research at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori University, he combined genomic in situ hybridization and DNA markers to characterize and select wheat—Leymus introgression lines as promising candidates for managing stresses in common wheat.
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