{"id":922,"date":"2025-11-28T08:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/?page_id=922"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:57:38","slug":"mengistu-wubie-birhanu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/?page_id=922","title":{"rendered":"Mengistu Wubie Birhanu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"181\" height=\"192\" src=\"http:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/11\/Mengistu-Wubie-Birhanu-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-921\" style=\"width:207px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>Full name<\/strong>: &#8211; Mengistu Wubie Birhanu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specialization<\/strong>: &#8211; Plant breeding and Genetic Research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic Rank<\/strong>: &#8211; Lecturer (M.Sc.) and PhD student<\/p>\n<p><strong>Department<\/strong>: &#8211; Horticulture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phone number<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Institutional email and alternative email: &#8211;<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:mengistub6@gmail.com\">mengistub6@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research interests: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?view_op=search_authors&amp;hl=en&amp;mauthors=label:plant_breeding\">Plant Breeding<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?view_op=search_authors&amp;hl=en&amp;mauthors=label:plant_pathology\">Plant Pathology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>List of Publications: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) Fungi Symbiosis in Sustainable Production of Sorghum (<em>Sorghum bicolor<\/em> Moench) Under Drought Stress: An Emerging Biofertilizer in Dryland Areas<\/li>\n<li>Effects of Varieties and Different Environments on Growth and Yield Performance of Shallot (<em>Allium cepa<\/em> aggregatum)<\/li>\n<li>WRKY Gene Silencing Enhances Tolerance to Salt Stress in Transgenic Tomato<\/li>\n<li>Transgenic Approaches of Improving Tomato (<em>Solanum lycopersicum<\/em>) to Salt Stress Tolerance<\/li>\n<li>Resistance Mechanisms of Tomato (<em>Solanum lycopersicum<\/em>) to Root-Knot Nematodes (<em>Meloidogyne species<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=y5IDwL4AAAAJ&amp;citation_for_view=y5IDwL4AAAAJ:LkGwnXOMwfcC\">Supplementary data: Roles and contribution of tomato WRKY genes to salt stress and powdery mildew resistance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Professional networking platforms: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Orcid ID: <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7550-3548\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7550-3548<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google Scholar: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=y5IDwL4AAAAJ\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=y5IDwL4AAAAJ<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full name: &#8211; Mengistu Wubie Birhanu Specialization: &#8211; Plant breeding and Genetic Research Academic Rank: &#8211; Lecturer (M.Sc.) and PhD student Department: &#8211; Horticulture Phone number: Institutional email and alternative email: &#8211; mengistub6@gmail.com Research interests: Plant Breeding, Plant Pathology List of Publications: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) Fungi Symbiosis in Sustainable Production of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor Moench) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-922","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/922\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}