B.Sc., Addis Ababa University/Asmara University, Biology
M.Sc., Addis Ababa University, Microbiology
Ph.D., Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, Biotechnology/Plant Tissue Culture

Publications

1. Tadesse M. & A.G. Berhanu. 1990. A survey of the micro flora of raw and pasteurised milk and the sources of contamination in a milk processing plant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Journal of Dairy Research 57: 233-238.
2. Tadesse Mehari, 1995. Overview of Biodiversity Conservation in Eritrea. IUCN - the World Conservation Union - Report on the workshop on Biodiversity Legislation, pp. 12-18.
3. Tadesse M., W.J.M. Lommen & P.C. Struik, 1999. Effects of normalisation treatments on leaf area development of potato transplants during acclimatisation. Abstracts of the 14th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Potato Research, Sorrento, Italy, pp. 96-97.
4. Tadesse M., W.J.M. Lommen & P.C. Struik, 1999. Effect of N-fertilisation of transplants from in vitro produced potato plantlets on transplant growth and yield in the field. Abstracts of the 14th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Potato Research, Sorrento, Italy, pp. 150-151.
5. Tadesse M., W.J.M. Lommen & P.C. Struik, 2000. Effects of in vitro treatments on leaf area growth of potato transplants during acclimatisation. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 61: 59-67.
6. Tadesse M., W.J.M. Lommen & P.C. Struik, 2001. Development of leaf area and leaf number of micropropagated potato plants. Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 49: 15-32.
7. Tadesse M., W.J.M. Lommen, P.E.L Van der Putten & P.C. Struik, 2001. Leaf area development of micropropagated potato plants: effects of leaf area of individual plants on logistic curve parameters and correlatios among these parameters. Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 49: 33-51.
8. Tadesse M., W.J.M. Lommen & P.C. Struik, 2001. Development of micropropagated potato plants over three phases of growth as affected by temperature in different phases. Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 49: 53-66.
9. Tadesse M., W.J.M. Lommen & P.C. Struik, 2001. Effects of nitrogen pre-treatment of transplants from in vitro produced potato plantlets on transplant growth and yield in the field. Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 49: 67-79.
10. Tadesse M., W.J.M. Lommen & P.C. Struik, 2001. Effects of temperature pre-treatment of tansplants from in vitro produced potato plantlets on transplant growth and yield in the field. Potato Research 44: 173-185.
11. Tadesse M., W.J.M. Lommen & P.C. Struik, 2002. Leaf area development of in vitro propagated potato plantlets over three phases of growth. Abstracts of the 15th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Potato Research, Hamburg, Germany pp. 78.