Getu Beyene Duguma
Research Scientist
Department of Plant Science
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
United States of America
Biography
Getu has been with the Danforth Center since January 2012. As the Cassava Pipeline Research Manager, his responsibilities include managing molecular and trait characterization of transgenic lines for the VIRCA and BioCassava Plus projects and supervising production and quality control of genetic constructs in both cassava projects. He also supervises the technical staff performing plant analysis in the IICI Trait Improvement Laboratory and provides mentoring and technical support to visiting scholars. Before joining the Danforth Center, Getu worked at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa as a postdoctoral fellow on the African Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) project, hosted by Pioneer Hi-Bred/DuPont, and at Texas AgriLife Research (part of Texas A&M University Systems), where he worked on the development of abiotic stress tolerant Saccharum spp. Getu obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Plant Sciences from Alemaya University, Ethiopia, where he served as a lecturer. He earned his Ph.D. at the Forestry Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) of the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Research Interest
His research involves Agricultural Plant Science, Biotechnology
Publications
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Chakauya E, Beyene G, Chikwamba RK. Food production needs fuel too: perspectives on the impact of biofuels in southern Africa. South African Journal of Science. 2009 Jun;105(5-6):174-81.
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Endah R, Beyene G, Kiggundu A, van den Berg N, Schlüter U, Kunert K, Chikwamba R. Elicitor and Fusarium-induced expression of NPR1-like genes in banana. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 2008 Nov 30;46(11):1007-14.
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Beyene G, Foyer CH, Kunert KJ. Two new cysteine proteinases with specific expression patterns in mature and senescent tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) leaves. Journal of Experimental Botany. 2006 Mar 1;57(6):1431-43.
