Adijat Funke Ogundola
University of Fort Hare, South Africa
Biography
Adijat Funke Ogundola focuses her research findings on evaluation of health benefits and improving the production of economic important wild vegetables. Currently, she based her studies on Solanum nigrum L. She has publications on micro-morphological studies, phytochemical constituents and antioxidant properties, also on essential oil chemical compounds and antioxidant properties aspects. Her study was based on how best the wild vegetables could be explored to alleviate food insecurity and likely problems. The primary step was to bring them to cultivation and their integration in food data base. Continuous production in the face of climate change, fire hazard, and natural disaster such as flood to explore the health benefits from wild vegetables was considered necessary by her. Therefore, she evaluates the health benefits and performances of these vegetables with the aim of improving on their production using green revolution system and in controlled environment.