Mr. Asafo-Agyei was appointed head of PDD in January, 2020. He holds an Mphil and BSc in Botany from the University of Ghana.He joined the Centre in 2018 as a Research Officer in the Plant Development Department (PDD).

Research interests:

His research interests include;

  • Biodiversity and conservation
  • Taxonomy
  • Ethnobotany
  • Herbarium

 

List of publications: 

Asase, A., & Asafo-Agyei, T. (2011). Plants used for treatment of malaria in communities around the Bobiri forest reserve in Ghana. Journal of herbs, spices & medicinal plants, 17(2), 85-106.

 

Mintah, S. O., Asafo-Agyei, T., Archer, M. A., Junior, P. A. A., Boamah, D., Kumadoh, D. & Agyare, C. (2019). Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Prevalent Diseases. In Pharmacognosy-Medicinal Plants. Intech Open.

Asafo-Agyei, T. (2019). Centre for Plant Medicine Research (CPMR) medicinal plants dataset. Version 1.2. Centre for Plant Medicine Research. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/2a8ste accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-09-24

Asafo-Agyei, T., Blagogee, H. R., Mintah, S. O., Archer, M., Ayertey, F., Sapaty, A. C., Atta-Adjei Jnr, P., Boamah, D., Asiedu-Larbi, J., & Appiah, A. A. (2019). Ethnobotanical studies of medicinal plants used in traditional treatment of malaria by some herbalists in Ghana. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, 13(16), 370-383.

Archer, M., Asafo-Agyei T., Oteng Mintah, S., Atta-Adjei Jnr, P., Kumadoh, D., & Asiedu-Larbi, J. (2019). Medicinal Uses of Cassia Sieberiana; A Review. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research, 48(2), 161-180.

Asafo-Agyei, T., Asase, A. & Oteng-Yeboah, A. (2019). Assessing the fitness- for- use of herbarium-based data and its application in biodiversity conservation in Ghana. Lap Lambert Academic Publishing.