Findimila Ishaya - PhD student
Contact
stxfdi@nottingham.ac.uk
Research summary
My research aims to understand how maize root physiology affects whole plant responses under nitrogen and water deficits so as to select important traits in maize germplasm for food, feed and bioenergy production. Assessing nitrogen and water stresses will help to produce maize lines that will maximally utilize available nitrogen under drought condition for higher yield. This is important because the prediction of global water scarcity against 2030 (Fischer and Heilig 1997) and the over use of Nitrogen fertilizer which is a larger contributor to greenhouse gas production impacting on global warming. Thus, it is imperative to say this research came at a better time to help the world recover from its anticipated predicament. To overcome the difficulties associated with root phenotyping in the soil, my research will make use of openable window rhizotrons to study root response to water and nitrogen deficiencies.
My Background
Before starting my PhD, I was a graduate of Agricultural Technology Education from Federal University of Technology Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria. Where I bagged my B. Tech Ed in 2009. My search for additional knowledge led me to undertake a Master programme in the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom where I studied MSc in Crop Improvement in 2016. My MSc project was on root response to high and low nitrogen which gave birth to my PhD research.
Country of birth: Nigeria
Hobbies: Reading, Cooking and Singing.
A weird fact: I love cold environments but I don’t like to feel too much cold.
stxfdi@nottingham.ac.uk
Research summary
My research aims to understand how maize root physiology affects whole plant responses under nitrogen and water deficits so as to select important traits in maize germplasm for food, feed and bioenergy production. Assessing nitrogen and water stresses will help to produce maize lines that will maximally utilize available nitrogen under drought condition for higher yield. This is important because the prediction of global water scarcity against 2030 (Fischer and Heilig 1997) and the over use of Nitrogen fertilizer which is a larger contributor to greenhouse gas production impacting on global warming. Thus, it is imperative to say this research came at a better time to help the world recover from its anticipated predicament. To overcome the difficulties associated with root phenotyping in the soil, my research will make use of openable window rhizotrons to study root response to water and nitrogen deficiencies.
My Background
Before starting my PhD, I was a graduate of Agricultural Technology Education from Federal University of Technology Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria. Where I bagged my B. Tech Ed in 2009. My search for additional knowledge led me to undertake a Master programme in the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom where I studied MSc in Crop Improvement in 2016. My MSc project was on root response to high and low nitrogen which gave birth to my PhD research.
Country of birth: Nigeria
Hobbies: Reading, Cooking and Singing.
A weird fact: I love cold environments but I don’t like to feel too much cold.