Charles Ikenna Nwankwo

Nationality: Nigerian

University of Hohenheim, Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Emil-Wolff Str. 27, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany

Email: charsile2000@yahoo.com ; c.nwankwo@uni-hohenheim.de

Research interests: Crop physiology, soil fertility, soil analysis, soil chemistry, biological nitrogen fixation, field experimentation, nutrient cycling, bio-statistics, plant nutrition, sustainable agriculture and dryland agriculture.

PhD Topic:The seed ball technology – a transdisciplinary approach to its development and implementation into Sahelian pearl millet production systems

Current Position: Postdoc at Soil Science and Pedology department in University of Hohenheim. Enhancing and disseminating seedball technology in West African Sahel.

Publications

  1. Nwankwo, C. I., Mühlena, J., Biegert, K., Butzer, D., Neumann, G., Sy, O., and Herrmann, L., 2018. Physical and chemical optimisation of the seedball technology addressing pearl millet under Sahelian conditions, Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 119, 67-79. 
  2. Nwankwo, C.I., Blaser, R.G.A., Vetterlein, D., Neumann, G., Herrmann, L., 2018. Seedball-induced changes of root growth and physicochemical properties – a case study with pearl millet. J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci., 181, 768-776
  3. Nwankwo, C.I., Herrmann, L., 2018. Viability of the seedball technology to improve pearl millet seedlings establishment under Sahelian conditions - a review of pre-requisites and environmental conditions. IJAR 6, 261-268

Dissertation