Position : Professor
Telephone : 035 902 6072
Email : ZharareG@unizulu.ac.za
Office : HA1, Agriculture Building, KwaDlangezwa Campus
Biography:
Prof G.E. Zharare is Professor under Agriculture Department in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering at the University of Zululand. He is Plant Scientist with specialization in Agronomy and plant physiology. Prof Zharare is an NRF C3 rated researcher who has published numerous peer-reviewed articles. He has supervised many postgraduate students to completion in plant sciences.
He also acts as a reviewer for a number of international journals on plant sciences.
Lecture ‘s the following modules:
- Agronomy Research Project I (4AAG441)
- Agronomy Research project II (4AAG441)
- Plant propagation (4AAG311)Professor
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Days of the week |
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Venue |
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Monday |
10:00 – 12:00 |
Agriculture Office HA1 |
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Wednesday |
11:00 –14:00 |
Agriculture Office HA1 |
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Friday |
9:00-11:00 |
Agriculture Office HA1 |
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Other consultations |
By appointment |
Agriculture Office HA1 |
Qualifications:
Hons (Crop Science) (University of Zimbabwe), MSc. (Crop Physiology) (Reading University, UK), PhD Agronomy (Queensland, AUS) “Effects of Ca Vegetative and reproductive growth of groundnut in nutrient solution”
Research interests:
Prof Zharare’s current research interests is on commercialization and domestication of indigenous fruit and essential oil plants. includes developing fruit products for commercialization, identifying plants with potential for vegetable oil and essential oil production, optimising extraction protocols for the oils and assessing the growth requirements of the plants. He is currently researching on developing commercial products from fruits of Strychnos species and Saba comorensis with the intention of developing the plants into horticultural crops.
Prof Zharare has previously worked on the agronomy of the groundnut crop with emphasis on its mineral nutrient requirements and its major pest, the groundnut leaf miner from which his has produced numerous publications.
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Professional membership:
- International Society for Horticultural Science
- South African Society of crop Science
- Buthelezi N.M., G.E. Zharare G.E. and Conlong D.E. (2021). A review of the biosystematics and bio-ecology of the groundnut / soya bean leaf miner species (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) Austral Entomology DOI: 10.1111/aen.12528
- Demissew Tesfaye Teshome, Godfrey Elijah Zharare and Sanushka Naidoo (2020)The Threat of the Combined Effect of Biotic and Abiotic Stress Factors in Forestry Under a Changing Climate
- Arindo Lukawu Akweni, Sifiso Sibanda, Godfrey Elijah Zharare, Clemence Zimudzi (2020). Fruit-based allometry of Strychnos madagascariensis and S. spinosa (Loganiaceae) in the savannah woodlands of the Umhlabuyalingana municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Oboh MO, Osunsanmi FO, Zharare GE, Mosa RA, Ojo MC, Opoku AR (2020). In vitro Antioxidant and Antidiabetic Potential of Crude Extracts from the Seed Coat and Fruit Pulp. Phcogj.com of Strychnos madagascariensis. Pharmacogn Journal. 12(6) Suppl:1504-11.
- Foluso Oluwagbemiga Osunsanmi Godfrey Elijah Zharare, Andy Rowland Opoku (2019), Phytochemical Constituents and Antioxidant Potential of Crude Extracts from Lippia Javanica (Burm.f.) Spreng Leaves. Pharmacogn J. 2019; 11(4):803-807.