Mercy Kitavi

728 total citations
12 papers, 166 citations indexed

About

Mercy Kitavi is a scholar working on Plant Science, Horticulture and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Mercy Kitavi has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 166 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Plant Science, 4 papers in Horticulture and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Mercy Kitavi's work include Plant Virus Research Studies (5 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (4 papers) and Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy (4 papers). Mercy Kitavi is often cited by papers focused on Plant Virus Research Studies (5 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (4 papers) and Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy (4 papers). Mercy Kitavi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and Peru. Mercy Kitavi's co-authors include D. Karamura, Moses Nyine, Morag Ferguson, Charles Spillane, Edmond De Langhe, Gérard Philippson, Frédéric Bakry, Christophe Jenny, Xavier Perrier and Cécile Dubois and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Theoretical and Applied Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Mercy Kitavi

9 papers receiving 164 citations

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A.B. Kouassi Ivory Coast

Sarah Harvey United Kingdom

Yan Wan China

Magdalena D. Pieczynska Poland

Ran Lu China

John J. Riascos Colombia

Felipe ten-Caten Brazil

Matthew Geniza United States

Kasper Nielsen Denmark

Yonggang Zhou China

A.B. Kouassi Ivory Coast

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Ssali, Reuben, Robert O. M. Mwanga, Camila Ferreira Azevedo, et al.. (2025). Tester selection for combining ability estimation of storage root yield and sweetpotato virus disease in sweetpotato breeding. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 4951–4951.

Childs, Kevin L., Kenneth V. Pecota, G. Craig Yencho, et al.. (2025). A Reference-Quality NLRome for the Hexaploid Sweetpotato and Diploid Wild Relatives. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 38(6). 978–992.

Wu, Shan, Honghe Sun, Xuebo Zhao, et al.. (2025). Phased chromosome-level assembly provides insight into the genome architecture of hexaploid sweetpotato. Nature Plants. 11(9). 1951–1959.

Stomeo, Francesca, Nasser Yao, Eunice Machuka, et al.. (2024). Next Generation Sequencing and Genetic Analyses Reveal Factors Driving Evolution of Sweetpotato Viruses in Uganda. Pathogens. 13(10). 833–833. 2 indexed citations

Kitavi, Mercy, Dorcus C. Gemenet, Joshua C. Wood, et al.. (2023). Identification of genes associated with abiotic stress tolerance in sweetpotato using weighted gene co‐expression network analysis. Plant Direct. 7(10). e532–e532. 3 indexed citations

Kitavi, Mercy, Morag Ferguson, Johan M. Lorenzen, et al.. (2020). Heritable epigenetic diversity for conservation and utilization of epigenetic germplasm resources of clonal East African Highland banana (EAHB) accessions. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 133(9). 2605–2625. 11 indexed citations

Olukolu, Bode A., Phinehas Tukamuhabwa, Wolfgang J. Grüneberg, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide association study identified candidate genes controlling continuous storage root formation and bulking in hexaploid sweetpotato. BMC Plant Biology. 20(1). 3–3. 25 indexed citations

Gemenet, Dorcus C., Mercy Kitavi, Reuben Ssali, et al.. (2020). Development of diagnostic SNP markers for quality assurance and control in sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] breeding programs. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0232173–e0232173. 17 indexed citations

Perrier, Xavier, Christophe Jenny, Frédéric Bakry, et al.. (2018). East African diploid and triploid bananas: a genetic complex transported from South-East Asia. Annals of Botany. 123(1). 19–36. 48 indexed citations

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Kitavi, Mercy, Tim Downing, Jim Lorenzen, et al.. (2016). The triploid East African Highland Banana (EAHB) genepool is genetically uniform arising from a single ancestral clone that underwent population expansion by vegetative propagation. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 129(3). 547–561. 35 indexed citations

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Karamura, D., et al.. (2016). Genotyping the local banana landrace groups of East Africa. Acta Horticulturae. 67–74. 9 indexed citations

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Beng, Véronique Penlap, Fidelis Cho‐Ngwa, Mercy Kitavi, et al.. (2013). Mycobacterium tuberculosisis the causative agent of tuberculosis in the southern ecological zones of Cameroon, as shown by genetic analysis. BMC Infectious Diseases. 13(1). 431–431. 16 indexed citations

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