Research Interests
I am focusing on the use of genomics tools for establishing genomic resources that will allow advancing the improvement of wild or semi-domesticated plant species with a high potential for desert agriculture such as fonio millet (D. exilis) as it shows high tolerance to heat, drought, and salt. I focus on analyzing re-sequencing data (i.e., whole-genome level) of fonio to understand its evolutionary history and more interestingly to investigate the pattern and process of fonio domestication, and exploring loci that involve in the domestication or improvement process
Research Interests Keywords
Crop domestication
Bioinformatics
Genomics
Population Genetics
Plant Biology and Desert agriculture