Vincent N Fondong
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Delaware State University
United States of America
Biography
Vincent N Fondong completed PHD in the year 2000 from WITS University. He is presently working as a Professor in Delaware State University.
Research Interest
Research in the Fondong lab is on cassava viruses (special emphasis on family Geminiviridae). Geminiviruses are among the most devastating plant pathogens worldwide and together with potyviruses (family Potyviridae) constitute the two largest and most important plant virus families. Geminiviruses have circular single-stranded DNA genomes and have four to eight genes that are expressed from both strands of the double-stranded DNA replicative intermediate.
Publications
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Leke, Walter & Mignouna, Djana & Brown, Judith & Fondong, Vincent. (2016). First report of Soybean chlorotic blotch virus and West African Asystasia virus 1 infecting cassava and a wild cassava relative in Cameroon and Togo. New Disease Reports. 33.
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Fondong, Vincent. (2017). The Search for Resistance to Cassava Mosaic Geminiviruses: How Much We Have Accomplished, and What Lies Ahead. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8.
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Fondong, Vincent & Nagalakshmi, Ugrappa & P. Dinesh-Kumar, Savithramma. (2016). Novel Functional Genomics Approaches: A Promising Future in the Combat Against Plant Viruses. Phytopathology. 106.
