Research
• PhD Thesis entitled “Banana Xanthomonas wilt and Potato bacterial wilt in Rwanda : Biology, risk factors and farmers’ awareness”.
• MSc Thesis entitled “Management of tomato damping-off caused by Pythium aphanidermatum (Edson) Fitzp. Through Integrated approach.”
• Team member of a 4 years (2021-2024) project funded by NCST on “Capitalizing on marigold bio-pesticide properties to leverage on the outputs of natural products made in Rwanda” conducted by a consortium composed of UR-CAVM, RAB, UTAB, SOPYRWA staffs.
Conference Presentations
• Risk factors associated with Potato bacterial wilt in Rwanda. 20th Triennial EAPR Conference 2017, 9-14th July 2017. Versailles, France. Poster.
• Assessment of host range and banana cultivars susceptibility to X. campestris pv. musacearum. ICPP 29 July - 03 August 2018. Boston, MA, USA. Poster.
• Banana xanthomonas wilt- epidemiological factors and farmers’ level of awareness in Rwanda. Future Plant Disease Epidemiology 13-14th September 2017. Uppsala, Sweden. Oral.
• Population structure of the Pathogen causing potato bacterial wilt in Rwanda. African Potato Association (APA) Conference 25th-28th August 2019. Kigali, Rwanda. Oral.
Publications
1. Uwamahoro et al. (2018), Potato bacterial wilt in Rwanda : Occurrence, risk factors, farmers’ knowledge and attitudes. Food Security 10:1221–1235
2. Uwamahoro et al. (2019), Management strategies for banana Xanthomonas wilt in Rwanda include mixing indigenous and improved cultivars. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 39:22
3. Uwamahoro et al. (2019), Host range and Banana cultivars’ susceptibility to Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum in Rwanda. African Crop Science Journal 27 (3) : 463 - 478.
4. Uwamahoro et al. (2020), Ralstonia solanacearum causing potato bacterial wilt : host range and cultivars’ susceptibility in Rwanda. Plant Pathology 69:559–568.