{"id":756,"date":"2024-02-23T10:52:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/?page_id=756"},"modified":"2025-06-20T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:29:46","slug":"olajide-fatukasi-phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/olajide-fatukasi-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Olajide Fatukasi (PhD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-775 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/01\/olajide-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/01\/olajide-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/01\/olajide-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/01\/olajide-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/01\/olajide-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/01\/olajide-676x901.jpg 676w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/01\/olajide-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>My name is Olajide Fatukasi. I did my undergraduate degree (B. Tech) in Biology (Storage-Option) at Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria. I obtained my MSc in Integrated Pest management at Harper Adams University, UK. For my MSc thesis, I studied the <i>In-Vitro Activities<\/i>\u00a0of Isothiocyanate on <i>Fusarium Species<\/i>, the Major Causal Agent of Head Blight\u00a0in Small Grain Cereal<span style=\"color: #444444;font-family: Lato, sans-serif\">s; this\u00a0<\/span>investigated the antifungal efficacy of the brassica extract (Isothiocyanates) at different concentrations in inhibiting the conidia germination and mycelial growth o<i>f Fusarium graminearum<\/i>,<i> F. culmurum<\/i> and<i> F. poae.\u00a0<\/i>My PhD research focuses on how different <i>Rhizobium<\/i>-pea symbiosis affects\u00a0pea leaf weevil behaviour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Despite the abundance of plant macronutrient, nitrogen in the environment, plants are unable to use it directly for their growth and development. In order to obtain nitrogen from the environment, Rhizobia, beneficial soil microbes forms symbiotic relationship with plant family, Fabaceae, by converting the atmospheric nitrogen to a usable form in the soil for plants to use it, and the microbes gets carbon nutrients in return, from the plants. With the availability of necessary nutrients in plants, the nutrients improves the quality of the plants. Healthy plants attract insect pests, such as pea leaf weevils (<i>Sitona lineatus<\/i>), a major pest that damages the plant root and foliage, reduces the nitrogen fixation, nitrogen and yield of field pea (Fabaceae:\u00a0<i>Pisum sativum<\/i>). My research focuses on how the Rhizobia-field pea symbiosis modulates the nutritional and defensive compounds of field peas, and how the symbiosis affects the behaviour and fitness of pea leaf weevils. Understanding how the symbiosis\u00a0affects the behaviour of pea leaf weevils will contribute\u00a0to the development of a sustainable\u00a0management strategy for pea leaf weevils.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Olajide Fatukasi. I did my undergraduate degree (B. Tech) in Biology (Storage-Option) at Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria. I obtained my MSc in Integrated Pest management at Harper Adams University, UK. For my MSc thesis, I studied the In-Vitro Activities\u00a0of Isothiocyanate on Fusarium Species, the Major Causal Agent of Head Blight\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-756","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/evenden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}