Affiliateship: 2020-2024
Cohort 5
Country (Nationality)
Cameroon
Discipline
Biosciences
Bio
Tonjock Rosemary Kinge is an Associate Professor of Mycology in the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science in the University of Bamenda, Cameroon. She has a PhD in Botany (Mycology) from the University of Buea in 2013. Her research is focused on four main axes; fungi diversity, fungi pathology, ethnomycology and conservation. She has identified and ascertained mushroom diversity in different forests in the South and North West Regions of Cameroon using morphological and molecular methods. Several species of mushrooms have been identified some of which are new to science and new records for Cameroon. She has carried out morphological, cultural and molecular identification of Fusarium and Ganoderma species infecting oil palm in Cameroon which have aided in the control of vascular wilt and basal stem rot diseases. Also, research has being carried out on mycobiome analysis of underutilized crops using next generation sequencing. Ethnomycological knowledge on mushrooms has been documented and result is been used for bioprospecting by phytochemists. Mushroom conservation has been done with the communities through cultivation of overharvested species (Pleurotus ostreatus) with locally available substrates and by the planting of fast growing leguminous trees. Rosemary is a member of several scientific organizations including the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists. She is a fellow of the African Science Leadership Programme, a TWAS-CAS and Fulbright scholar alumni. She has published over 25 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. She is a reviewer for South African Journal of Botany, Academic Journals, Science Domain and Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine.