| Expert Name | Mr. Andrew Evaristo Matibiri |
| Title | Senior Biotechnologist/Head of Department |
| Division | Biotechnology Department |
| Institution | Tobacco Research Board |
| City | Harare |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Telephone | 263 4 575 293 |
| Email | andrew_matibiri(at)kutsaga.co.zw |
| Work Experience | Have participated in a number of consultancies and national studies. |
| Qualifications | B.Sc., Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe, 1981
M.Phil, Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe, 1983
Ph.D., Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe, 1993 |
| Number of Publications | 16 |
| Awards | 1. Consultants Trust Post Graduate Scholarship
2. Zimbabwe State Lotteries Fellowship |
| Other Activities | - International Association for Plant Tissue Cultures
- Grow Science Society of Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe National Plant Genetic Resources Committee
- Agriculture Technical Committee |
| Publications | 1. Matibiri, E.A., and Mantell, S.H., 1994: Cybridization in Nicotiana Tobacco. Using double inactivation of parental protoplasts and post-fusion selection based on nuclear encoded and chloroplast encoded genes. Theoretician and applied genetics 88: 1017-1022;
2. Matibiri, E.A. and Mantell, S.H., 1995: Comparative effects of fusion facilitators on electrofusion attributes of N. Tabacum and mesophyll protoplasts. Plant cell tissues and organ culture 40: 367-374;
3. Ottino, P., Matabiri, E.A., and Mbaya, A., 1998: Rapid purification of high activity taqana polymerase expressed in transformed E. coli cells. Transactions of the Zimbabwe Scientific Association 72: 26-31.
4. Matabiri, E., 1989: Plant tissue culture and plant propagation. The Zimbabwe Science News 23 (46): 38-40;
5. Matibiri, E.A., 1996: Characterization of Trichoderma harzianum strains. Biotechnology (Zimbabwe) 2 (4): 5-7. |
| Discipline | Natural Resource Management |
| Last updated | 10/05/2007 11:47:00 |
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