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George Tawia Odamtten
Born (1948-07-07) July 7, 1948 (age 76)
NationalityGhanaian
Education
Known forContributions to science education and botany
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Ghana, Legon

George Tawia Odamtten , FGA (born 7 July 1948) is a Ghanaian botanist and Professor at the Department of Plant and Environmental Biology at the University of Ghana,Legon. Odamtten was the Head of the Department of Botany at the university on two occasions (1988-1992) and (1997-2001) and oversaw its transformation to become the Department of Plant and Environmental Biology. He was Chairman of the defunct Volta Basin Research Project and has focused his research on plant pathogenic fungi,mycoflora of food spoilage in storage,fungal toxins,fungal physiology, biological control of pathogenic fungi, mushroom science ,food irradiation processing of agricultural produce and lately molecular plant pathology . Odamtten is the currently the Editor-In-Chief of the Ghana Journal of Science. He was inducted as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. [1]

References

  1. ^ "Fellowship". gaas-gh.org. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)