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12/05/2025

KT would like to welcome Dr Adenike Dada, Mr Adewole Akintunde, Dr Oyatomi Olaniyi and Dr Adanikin Bamidele on the start of their new project titled: "Development of Resilient Cowpea Varieties to emerging climate conditions (water-logging) in South West Nigeria". 

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09/05/2025

Congratulations to Dr Yona Masheti who's been recognised by the University of Nairobi for excellence in his PhD thesis under the Faculty of Agriculture (2023/2024 academic year)! Read the article "Young Scientists Leading a Good Cause" accessible on the link below.

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09/05/2025

Congratulations to Dr Kelvin Kamfwa, Susan Chipandwe, and the rest of the research team for their recent publication:

Chipandwe S, Hamabwe S, Mwense B, Kuwabo K, Lungu D, Chiaravallotti I, Hoyos-Villegas V, Kamfwa K. 2025. GGE biplot and QTL analyses for seed yield in an Andean population of common bean. Euphytica 221: 1-11.

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02/04/2025

KT would like to wish Petra Raitaniemi the best of luck as she leaves us to start a new job! Petra was Project Officer for the charity's African Cowpea Program (ACP).

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17/03/2025

The Kirkhouse Trust (KT) is pleased to announce the publication of the Tepary Bean (Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray) monograph. The authors are Dr Saul Eric Mwale and Dr Travis Parker.

This marks the completion of the Stress Tolerant Orphan Legumes (STOL) Monograph series. We extend our sincere gratitude to the authors, and to Dr. Prem N. Mathur and Dr. Robert Koebner, for making this achievement possible.

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14/03/2025

The Kirkhouse Trust (KT) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Presidor Kendabie as a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Timko’s lab at the University of Virginia (UVA). Dr Kendabie will be contributing to projects both on cowpea and Bambara groundnut. We wish the best of luck to him!

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14/03/2025

The Kirkhouse Trust (KT) is pleased to announce that Mr Ba-Ada Sawil, a MSc graduate student from Dr Sobda Gonné's research group in Cameroon, has started his 6-month lab training in Prof Timko’s lab in University of Virginia (UVA). We wish the best of luck to him!

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13/03/2025

Many congratulations to Ms Prossy Namuli on her graduation and being awarded the degree of Master of Science in Plant Breeding and Seed Systems from Makerere University. Her thesis is entitled, ‘Identification of new sources of resistance to common bean Anthracnose (Colletotrichum lindemuthianum) among the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris l.) germplasm in Uganda’.

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