Dr.A.A. Jayeola

Dr.A.A. Jayeola

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY AND MICROBIOLOGY

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Dr. Adeniyi Akanni Jayeola

B.Sc. M.Sc. Ife, Ph.D.( Ife)

 

Area of Specialisation

Plant Taxonomy and Conservation

 

Office

Room C27,

Department of Botany & Microbiology

Faculty of Science

Tel:

+234-802-23210656


Email: aa.jayeola@mail.ui.edu.ng

CURRENT STATEMENT ON YOUR RESEARCH FOCUS

Plant identification and classification directed at the threatened species of angiosperms, aimed at their conservation.

 

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT

Anatomy of the rattan palms of Nigeria

Survey of epicuticular waxes in dryland angiosperms in relation to water conservation.

 

Current Publications

  1. Jayeola, A. A. (1988). Indigofera pulchra Willd. : a potential fodder plant of West African savanna. Ife Journal of Agriculture. 10 1& 2, 78- 84.

  2. Makanjuola, R. O. A.and Jayeola, A. A. (1987). Yoruba traditional healers in pschiatry: management of mental disorder. Afr. J. Med. Sci. (1987) 16, 61-73. (The study entailed a great deal of plant systematics, involving identification from fragments of leaves, flowers, roots and barks).

  3. Adesina, S.K; Gbile, Z.O; Odukoya, A.O; Akinwusi, D. D; H.C. Illoh, H.C. and Jayeola, A. A. (1998). Indigenous African Food crops and Useful Plants: Their Preparation for Food, and Home Gardens in West Africa, with Special Emphasis on Medicinal Plants and Issues Associated with their Management. Proceedings of the UNU/INRA Regional Workshop Accra, Ghana - March 1998. Ed. J.J. Baidu-Forson.

  4. Jayeola, A. A. (1998). Surface sculpturing of Alstonia boonei DE WILLD. and A. congensis ENGL. (Apocyanaceae) and its importance on their taxonomy. Feddes Repertorium 109, 5-6: 429-433.

  5. Jayeola, A. A. and Thorpe, J. R. (2000). Scanning Electron Microscope Study of the adaxial leaf surface of the Calyptrochilum Kraenzl. (Orchidaceae) in West Africa. Feddes Repertorium, 111, 308-314.

  6. Jayeola, A. A. (2000). Comparative ecological anatomy of two aggressive weeds in Nigeria: Tithonia diversifolia (Hensl.) A. Gray and Chromolaena odorata (R. H. king and Schrad. Ex D. C) H. Robinson.38th Annual Conference of the Science Association of Nigeria. Ogun State University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. Bulletin of Science Association of Nigeria, 23 (2001) ( In press ).

  • Jayeola, A. A. (2001). Effects of numerical methods, quantity and composition of numerical characters on the classification of the angraecoid orchids of Nigeria and Cameroun. Nigerian Journal of Ecology. 3, 39–40.

  • Jayeola, A.A.; Thorpe, J. R. and Adenegan, T. A. (2001). Macromorphological and micromorphological studies of the West African Rhizophora Linn. Feddes Repertorium 112, 5-6, 337-344.

  • Jayeola, A.A. and Folorunsho, A. (2001). Floral morphology of the Polystachya Hook (Orchidaceae) in Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Horticulture (Accepted).

  • Jayeola, A.A. 2002. BGUI struggles to conserve 127 globally threatened tree species. African Botanic Gardens Network, Bulletin No 6, December, 2002

  • Jayeola, A. A. 2003. The African Botanic Gardens Network: the path to sustainable biodiversity conservation in Africa. The Conservatory, Vol. XI No 1, May 2003.

  • Jayeola, A. A. 2003. Plant Conservation Before Science. African Botanic Gardens Network Bulletin No 7, July 2003.

  • Jayeola, A.A. 2004. Osunpoly Botanic Garden Takes Off 2005. African Botanic Gardens Network Bulletin No 9, November 2004.

  • Mubo A. Sonibare, Adeniyi A. Jayeola and Adeyemi Egunyomi (2004). A morphomeric analysis of the genus Ficus Linn. (Moraceae). African Journal of Biotechnology vol/ 3 (4), pp. 229-235, April 2004.

  • Sonibare, A. M; Jayeola, A.A. and Egunyomi, A. (2005). Chemotaxonomic significance of leaf alkanes in species of Ficus (Moraceae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 3 (2005) 79-86.