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Bio
UMAR, Muhammad Lawan was born in Tudun wada Dankadai, Kano state, Nigeria on 26th February, 1976. Held Bsc, Msc & PGDE from Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria and PhD Plant Breeding (WACCI, University of Ghana, Legon) and rose to the rank of Associated Professor with effect from January 2020. I am a Plant Breeder (specializes in breeding field crops for farmers and consumer preferred traits and research on field crops dryland farming), working with Institute for Agriculture (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria (2008 to date) Home | Department of Plant Science | Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria - Nigeria (abu.edu.ng) and collaborating with International Agricultural Research Institutes and Agricultural Biotechonogies Centers of excellence.
I have more than 50 publications: 20 in peer reviewed Journals, 14-International Conferences, 16 local Conferences, 5 Seminars & Workshops, many radio, Television & newspapers interviews. I teach and supervise students’ projects, thesis/dissertations for both undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate students and graduated more than 10 UG students, 20 Msc and 15 PhDs
ADMINISTRATIVE
I. Umar has been the Programme Leader of the Legumes and Oilseeds Research Programme at the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) in Nigeria since 2017. He leads a team of multi-disciplinary scientists concerned with genetic improvement, agronomics, crop protection and socioeconomics of cowpea, groundnut, sunflower, jatropha and castor bean in the country.
II. He has been the head of the Plant Genetic Resources Unit of the IAR/ABU since 2014, with responsibility of germplasm collection, maintenance and conservation.
III. He has been the National Trial Manager of the Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea Project and has led to the ‘Development of the first Pod Borer Resistant Transgenic Cowpea in the world, an IAR Project since 2014. Under this project, he is responsible for the day-today coordination of efficacy trials, selection of novel events, testing under containment and field confinement as well as introgression of transgenes into commercial cowpea genetic backgrounds for the development of Pod Borer (Maruca vitrata) resistant cowpea cultivars in Nigeria.
IV. He participated in the International Research Review – Reviewed the Progress of ten years of Grain legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC) phase 1 and extension, held at ICRISAT Campus, Andra-Pradesh, Hyderabad-India, 2nd – 7th October, 2016
V. He served as a member of Curriculum Development on “Food Security and Biotechnology in Africa with focus on Addressing the challenges of Agricultural Biotechnology through Curriculum Development” organized by EDULINK – food security in Africa, held at Climate Change Conference Hall, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria, 6th December 2016.
VI. INNOVATION: My research has led to the Development Registration and Commercial release of 6 cowpea varieties that are changing livelihoods of millions of Nigerians: SAMPEA 16, SAMPEA 17, SAMPEA 18, SAMPEA 19, SAMPEA-20-T and most recently release (SAMPEA-21) in December 2021.
VII. AWARD/HONOUR: He was given the Vice Chancellor’s Merit Award from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria (November, 2014) for displaying a high level of initiative towards the realization of the vision and mission (Excellence in Research) of the University.
VIII. In recognition to his academic and administrative leadership qualities, the Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria appointed Dr Umar to serve as the Head of Plant Science Department for the period of two years (3rd April 2021 to 2nd April 2023).
IX. Research collaboration: with regional and international Research centers/Institutes such as:
a. Commonwealth Scientic and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Canberra ACT 2601, Australia: working on the Development of Pod borer Resistant Cowpea carrying Cry 1Ab and 2Ab genes
b. The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA - Portuguese: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária), Brasilia-Brazil: Brazil marketplace project for the the generation of Virus resistant Cowpea.
c. African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF):- in compliance with Regulatory Agencies in the implementation of Research in the Development of Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea in Nigeria.
d. University of California, River side (UCR) – Modern Cowpea Breeding Techniques
e. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA-Nigeria) – in cowpea improvement and implementation of Nationally and Regionally Coordinated Researches like: USAID cowpea upscaling, Tropical Legumes Project (TL III) ‘Improving livelihoods for smallholder farmers: Enhanced grain legume productivity and production in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia’ Tropical Legumes III | Led by ICRISAT – Improving livelihoods for smallholder farmers, Accelerated Variety Development and Seed Delivery in Africa (AVISA) Home - AVISA (avisaproject.org) and IITA-Bayer Project on “Increasing Performance of Cowpea Breed
Research Interests
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Kauê de Sousa,Jacob van Etten,Rhys Manners, Erna Abidin, Rekiya O. Abdulmalik,Bello Abolore,Kwabena Acheremu, Stephen Angudubo,Amilcar Aguilar,Elizabeth Arnaud, Adventina Babu,Mirna Barrios,
Agronomy for Sustainable Developmentno. 1 (2024): 1-19
Wajiha Mu’az Abdullahi, Sanah Abdullahi Mu’az,Abou Togola,Sanusi Gaya Mohammed,Muhammad Lawan Umar,Patrick Obia Ongom,Candidus Echekwu,Ousmane Boukar
Food Security and Safety Volume 2pp.283-306, (2022)
Legume Scienceno. 4 (2022)
Entropyno. 11 (2022): 1511-1511
Research Square (Research Square) (2021)
University of Ghana,Dzidzienyo Daniel Kwadjo,Umar Muhammad Lawan,Ishiyaku Mohammad Faguji,Tongoona Pangirayi Bernard, Cornell University
agriRxiv (2021)
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