Habeeb Yinka Atanda

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Graduate Research Assistant

University of Arkansas primary UA Div. of Agriculture

Also affiliated: Aberystwyth University (2023–2024); University of Arkansas System (2024–2025); International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (2023)

Graduate Student Researcher

Entomology & Plant Pathology

3 h-index 8 pubs 17 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

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ORCID

OverviewAI-generated summary

Habeeb Yinka Atanda's research focuses on identifying and characterizing plant diseases, particularly fungal and viral pathogens affecting agricultural crops. His work has investigated diseases in African Yam Bean and passion fruit in Nigeria, as well as melon in the United States. Atanda has also explored methods for efficient pathogen transfer, including the use of dodder to overcome barriers in woody plants. His publications address the integration of scientific rigor with regulatory practices for germplasm exchange, aiming to exclude phantom agents. Atanda collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Ioannis Tzanetakis, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Andrea Sierra-Mejia, and Ashish Srivastava.

Metrics

h-index: 3
Publications: 8
Citations: 17

Selected Publications

Advancing the virus diagnostic toolkit: Development of accurate and reliable artificial virus-mimicking positive controls and CRISPR-based detection (2025)

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science OpenAlex
Overcoming the Woody Barrier: Dodder Enables Efficient Transfer of Infectious Clones to Woody Plants (2025)

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex