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Vendeline Tairo

Name
Vendeline Emmanuel Tairo

Academic Rank
Lecturer

Department
Biological Sciences

Biography

Biography

Dr. Tairo Vendeline, a Tanzanian, is a lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mkwawa University College of Education (MUCE), a constituent college of the University of Dar es Salaam. He earned a second upper-class BSc (GPA 4.2) and an MSc (GPA 4.2) from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in 1997 and 2001, respectively. In 2005, he completed an MSc in Biodiversity at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and went on to obtain his PhD in Ecology and Environment from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, in 2011. Since 2007, Dr. Tairo has been teaching courses such as Evolutionary Botany, Plant Taxonomy, Population and Community Ecology, Plant Physiology, Anatomy, Advanced Plant Physiology, Conservation biology and Biostatistics at MUCE. 

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Email:

Email Address
vendeline.tairo@muce.ac.tz

Research Interest

Research Interest
Medicinal Plants/All life forms, Forest conservation and Management, Mycology, Wild edible plants, and Food nutrition

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Projects

Projects

  1. Mushroom project-nutritional and antinutrtional in Tanzania, Budget TZS 30,000,000 from University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) 

  2. Medicinal Plants Budget TZS 30,000,000 from University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM 

  3. Herbs project Budget TZS 30,000, 000 from University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) 

  4. Tourism Project Budget TZS 70,000,000 (2019-2022) from University of Dar es Salaam

Publications

Publications

  1. Tairo, V.E. (2006). The Composition and regeneration staus of Wild Food Plants in Semi arid areas of Central Tanzania. Discovery and Innovation 19:107-11.

  2. Tairo, V.E. (2005). Diversity and Conservation Practices of Wild Food Plants in Chenene Woodland, Dodoma Rural District, Tanzania. Unpublished MSc Thesis, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Pp 100.

  3. Tairo V.E (2008) Estimation of Soil Phosphorus in Sao Hill: Extractants and Plant Uptake. Journal of African Affairs 23: (2) 223-240

  4. Tairo, V.E. (2001). Phosphorus availability in selected Sao Hill forest plantations, Iringa, Tanzania. Unpublished MSc dissertation.

  5. Tairo, V.E. (2021) Comparison of Nutritional and Anti-Nutritional Qualities of Grewia forbesii Hav. Ex Mast and Grewia bicolor Juss Fruits from Kitapilimwa Forest

  6. Reserve in Iringa District. Issue 47 No 4 2021. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tjs.v47i4.9

  7. Rwegoshora, L. M. ., Tairo, V. E. . ., & Olotu, M. I. . (2023). Efficacy of the Botanical Extracts, Azadirachta indica (Sapindales: Meliaceae) and Tagetes minuta (Asterales: Asteraceae) in the Control of Cabbage Insect Pests in Iringa District, Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Science, 49(2), 402–412. https://doi.org/10.4314/tjs.v49i2.11

  8. Tairo,  V.E. ,  Njoka, J T. , Lukhoba W. C. and  Lyaruu, H. V.M. (2011). Nutritive and Anti-nutritive Qualities of Most Preferred Edible Woody Plants in Selected Drylands of Iringa District, Tanzania.  Pakistan Journal of Nutrition 10: (8) 786-791

  9. Tairo, V.E. (2011). Utilization of Woody plants during times of food scarcity from selected drylands in Iringa, Region. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

  10. John Wilson Nkya , Never Zekeya. Ali Darwesh Maggid an Tairo Vendeline Emmanuel (2014) Ethnomedicine of the Plants used in Villages’ Adjacent Minziro Forest Reserve in Misenyi District, Kagera Region.  International Journal of Ethnobiology &  thnomedicine 2014;: 1:1