Ajose Titilayo Esther

Staff

Ajose Titilayo Esther

Rank:

Research Officer I

Area of specialization:

Crop improvement and plant disease detection

Official Email:

ajose.titilayo@nihort.gov.ng

Qualification:

Bachelors of Agricultural Technology

Brief Profile

Titilayo is an early-career plant scientist, with research interests focused on the improvement of horticulture crops for climate resilience and the use of innovative biotechnological techniques for plant disease detection and screening of horticultural crops to major pathogens.

Publications

Ajose., E., Matthew, J. O., Umeh, V. C., Owolabi, S. T., Oyekale, S. A. and Arogundade, O. (2025). Effect of seed treatments on seedling growth and development of African walnut. Proceedings of 43^rd Annual Conference of Horticultural Society of Nigeria Page 329-335
Arogundade, O., Ajose, T. E., Banji, A. O., Matthew, J. O., Oke, K. E. and Umeh, V. C. (2025). Molecular Detection of Seed-borne Cucumber mosaic virus infecting pepper in the greenhouse. Proceedings of 43^rd Annual Conference of Horticultural Society of Nigeria Page 31- 37
O. Matthew., T. E. Ajose., Y. O. Olagunju., O. I. Akinyoola., B. D. Omololu. And O. Arogundade. (2025). Genome Duplication and Plant Evolution. IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.1011348
A. Oyekale, H. O. Owolabi, O. T. V. Adebiyi, C. O. Aremu, S. A. Ige, T. I. Akinborode, W. Ayojimi and T. E. Ajose (2025). Identifying drought-resilient, high yielding extra-early maize genotypes for Sustainable maize production in a changing climate. Journal of Science and Technology Research, 7: 2472-2477. DOI: 10.37933/nipes/74.2025.S1292
Banji, A., Ajose, T., Matthew, J. O., Azeez, S. O. and Arogundade, O. (2025). RNA interference (RNAi)-Based Techniques for Management of Plant Viruses. Springer Nature, DOI: 1007/978-981-97-7213-1_8
Adegbaju, M.S., Ajose, T., Adegbaju, I. E., Omosebi, T., Ajenifujah-Solebo, S.O., Falana O. Y., Adetunji, C.O. and Akinbo, O. (2024). Genetic Engineering and Genome Editing technologies as catalyst for Africa’s food security: The case of plant biotechnology in Nigeria. Genome Ed. 6:1398813. DOI: 10.3389/fgeed.2024.1398813
Akinyoola, O.I., Ajose, T.E., Chukwu, K.E., Matthew, J.O., Arogundade, O. and Akinyemi, S.O.S. (2023). Genetic Diversity in Ocimum species as revealed by SCoT markers. Proceedings of 41^st Annual Conference of Horticultural Society of Nigeria Page 413-416.
Akinyoola, O.I., Akin-Idowu, P.E., Shokalu, A.O., James, I.E., Olagunju, Y.O., Arogundade, O.O., Ajose, T.E. and Amoran, O.A. (2023). Optimisation of DNA Extraction protocols for plants with high levels of Secondary metabolites and Polysaccharides: Rose as a case study. Proceedings of 41^st Annual Conference of Horticultural Society of Nigeria Page 398-402.
Matthew, J., Ozeigbe, M., Azeez, S.O., Ajose, T. and Okoyo, M.E. (2022). Polyploidization and Speciation: Patterns of Natural Hybridization and asymmetrical gene flow in Basil (Ocimum spp.). Notulae Scientia Biologicae, 14(3): 1-12. DOI: 15835/nsb14311289

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