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Current research

Since millenia, human have selected plant individuals presenting traits of interest from wild populations and cultivated them. Such selective process (domestication process) is generally linked to a reduction of genetic diversity as only a small number of wild individuals are used for cultivation. The passage from a wild to a cultivated status is generally accompanied by a modification of a number of morphological (eg increase of fruit size for fruit tree species) and genetic traits (genetic bottleneck), commonly known as the domestication syndrome. In my PhD study, I will assess these domestication-related traits modifications in an emblematic multipurpose fruit tree species from the lower Guinea and Congo Basin: Dacryodes edulis (G.Don) H.J.Lam (Burseraceae) known as ‘African plum’. The species is widespread in various natural and cultivated systems in Central Africa, yet its domestication history is still unknown. I am developing and ethnobotanical and genetic approach to unravel the evolutionary history of the species in relation to human use.

This project will be conducted at the DIADE research unit, in collaboration with the University of Dschang.

Formation

2018- till date

PhD in Agroforestry

Supervisors: AVANA Marie Louise (University of Dschang), Jerome DUMINIL (UMR DIADE, IRD), FONKOU Théophile (University of Dschang) Subject: Domestication syndrome of Dacryodes edulis: compared analysis of wild and domesticated populations in the Congo Basin.

2015-2017

Msc in Agroforestry and Optimisation of the Ecosystem Services of natural and cultivated landscape in the Congo Basin (AGROFOPSE-BC), option Ecological Intensification at the Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences, Dschang, Cameroon

Supervisors: ML Avana, J. DUMNIL

Subject: Ethnobotanic Study and structuring of ethno-variety of Garcinia cola (Clusiaceae) in 4 production sites in Cameroun

Msc in Plant Physiology and Biotechnology at the Faculty of Science of the University of Dschang, Cameroon

Supervisors: FONKOU Theophile

Subject: Identification and characterization of the usefull wetlands-Macrophytes in the locality of Foumban/West-Cameroon