Miss Abigail Mashamba

MSc Student

Research Interests

Nodules are specific organs fixing atmospheric nitrogen into an accessible form to plants during leguminous plant development. At plant maturity, leguminous plants experienced nodule senescence resulting in the loss of nodule activity. However, little is still known about the role of proteases and their natural inhibitors in nodule development. Therefore my interest of study focused on detection and measurement of protease and protease inhibitor activity during soybean nodule development. Furthermore to design and test a cysteine protease inhibitor construct with tobacco used as a model plant to block cysteine protease activity, which might be useful for soybean transformation.