Dr. Sylvester  Elikana Anami
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Dr. Sylvester Elikana Anami

Senior Research Fellow
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya


Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Ghent University, Belgium

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Area of Interest:

Plant and Soil Sciences
100%
Molecular Biology
62%
Biochemistry
90%
Biotechnology
75%
Botany
55%

Research Publications in Numbers

Books
0
Chapters
0
Articles
0
Abstracts
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Selected Publications

  1. Muli, J.K., N. Budambula, C. Mweu and S.E. Anami, 2018. Drought response in selected tropical inbred maize lines and relative expression of PARP2 gene under limited water conditions. Plant, 6: 8-15.
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  2. Ghilamicael, A.M., N.L.M. Budambula, S.E. Anami, T. Mehari and H.I. Boga, 2018. Thermotolerant bacteria of biotechnological potential from hot springs in Eritrea. Afr. J. Microbiol. Res., 12: 512-524.
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  3. Ghilamicael, A.M., H.I. Boga, S.E. Anami, T. Mehari and N.L.M. Budambula, 2018. Potential human pathogenic bacteria in five hot springs in Eritrea revealed by next generation sequencing. PloS One, Vol. 13. 10.1371/journal.pone.0194554.
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  4. Njuguna, E., G. Coussens, S. Aesaert, P. Neyt, S. Anami and M.V. Lijsebettens, 2017. Modulation of energy homeostasis in maize and Arabidopsis to develop lines tolerant to drought, genotoxic and oxidative stresses. Afr. focus, 30: 66-76.
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  5. Muli, J.K., C. Mweu, N. Budambula and S.E. Anami, 2017. Yeast extract peptone based co-cultivation media promotes transient GUS expression in tropical maize genotypes. Asian J. Crop Sci., 9: 71-81.
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  6. Ghilamicael, A.M., N.L.M. Budambula, S.E. Anami, T. Mehari and H.I. Boga, 2017. Evaluation of prokaryotic diversity of five hot springs in Eritrea. BMC Microbiol., 17: 203-203.
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  7. Budambula, N., A.M. Ghilamicael, H.I. Boga, S.E. Anami and T. Mehari, 2017. Physical and chemical characteristics of five hot springs in Eritrea. J. Nat. Sci. Res., 7: 88-94.
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  8. Muli, J.K., N.L.M. Budambula, C. Mweu, M.C. Imbo and S.E. Anami, 2016. Genetic improvement of african maize towards drought tolerance: A review. Adv. Life Sci. Technol., 48: 1-9.
  9. Mbinda, W., S. Anami, O. Ombori, C. Dixelius and R. Oduor, 2016. Efficient plant regeneration of kenyan sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivars thorough somatic embryogenesis. J. Tissue Sci. Eng., 7: 176-176.
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  10. Anami, S.E., Y.M. Zhang, L.X. Zhang, L. Zhu and H.C. Jing, 2016. Sorghum Genetic Transformation: Current Status and Future TargetTraits. In: Biotechnology Major Cereals, Jones, H.D. (Ed.)., Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DA, UK., ISBN: 9781780645193, Pages: 48.
  11. Anami, S.E., H. Luo, Y. Xia and H.C. Jing, 2016. Sorghum Genome Sequencing and its Impact Generated Through Public and Private Efforts. In: Sorghum Genome, Compendium of Plant Genomes, Rakshit, S. and Y.H. Wang, (Eds.)., Springer, Cham, ISBN: 978-3-319-47789-3, pp: 95-116.
  12. Anami, S.E., Y. Xia, Y.M. Zhang, Z.Q. Liu and H.C. Jing, 2015. Sweet sorghum ideotypes: Genetic improvement of the biofuel syndrome. Food Energy Secur., 10.1002/fes3.63.
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  13. Anami, S.E., Y. Xia and Y.M. Zhang, Z.Q. Liu and H.C. Jing, 2015. Sweet sorghum ideotypes: Genetic improvement of the stress tolerance. Food Energy Secur., 2015. Sweet sorghum ideotypes: Genetic improvement of the stress tolerance. Food Energy Secur., 10.1002/fes3.54.
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  14. Olive, S.F., F.M. Njoka, A.J. Mgutu and S.E. Anami, 2014. Screening for water deficit tolerance, relative growth analysis and agrobacterium-infectivity in tropical maize (Zea Mays L.) inbred lines in Nairobi, Kenya. Int. J. Life Sci. Res., 2: 218-224.
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  15. Matheka, J., S. Anami, J. Gethi, S. Runo, A. Alakonya and J. Machuka, 2013. The use of a DRB binary system to recover marker-free transgenic plants. BMC Res. Notes, 8: 448-448.
  16. Anami, S., E. Njuguna and M.V. Lijsebettens, 2013. Higher plant transformation: Principal and molecular tools. Int. J. Dev. Biol., 57: 483-494.
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  17. Akoyi, J., A.J. Mgutu, J. Machuka, M.V. Lijsebettens, C. Taracha and S.E. Anami, 2012. Dicamba growth regulator promotes genotype independent somatic embryogenesis from immature zygotic embryos of tropical maize inbred lines. J. Life Sci., 7: 677-689.
  18. Robles, P., D. Fleury, H. Candela, G. Cnops And A. Peral, et al 2010. 2010The RON1/FRY1/SAL1 Gene IsRequired for leaf morphogenesis and venation patterning in arabidopsis. Plant. Physiol., 152: 1357-1372.
  19. Anami, S.E., A.J. Mgutu, C. Taracha, G. Coussens and M. Karimi et al., 2010. Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration of tropical maize genotypes. Plant Cell Tissue Organ. Cult., 102: 285-295.
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  20. Anami, S., 2010. Silencing approach using poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase gene to improve drought stress tolerance in maize. Afr. Focus, 23: 61-67.
  21. Anami, S., M. Block, J. Machuka And M.V. Lijsebettens, 2009. Molecular improvement of tropical maize for drought stress tolerance in sub-saharan africa. Crit. Rev. Plant Sci., 28: 16-35.
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  22. Anami, E.S., J.A. Mguu, L.H. Bowdoin, A.O. Rasha And H. Nelissen, 2008. Progress in transformation and regeneration of tropical inbred maize lines in Kenya. Maize genet. Coop. Newslett., 82: 22-23.
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  23. Fleury, D., K. Himanen, G. Cnops, H. Nelissen And T.M. Boccardi, et al 2007. The arabidopsis thaliana homolog of yeast bre1 has a function in cell cycle regulation during early leaf and root growth. Plant Cell, 19: 417-432.
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