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Mr. Philipo is an assistant lecturer/plant breeder in the school of life sciences and bioengineering at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania.Key research areas; Plant breeding for improved nutritional and micronutrients (Biofortification) of crops, Improvement for plant biotic resistance and abiotic tolerance, and Farmer's participatory variety selection.

I hold BSc. in Agronomy and MSc. in Crop Sciences (Improvement) from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Iron Biofortification of Common beans, the aim is to develop crosses with high seed iron contents and later farmers and consumers preferred bean variety(s) that contains enough nutritional iron to be of a benefit to bean consumers.

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