Pheonah Nabukalu

Pheonah Nabukalu is the Lead Scientist for the Perennial Sorghum Program and a visiting scientist at the University of Georgia, Tifton. Pheonah holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture and a Master of Science degree in Crop Science – Plant Breeding and Genetics from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. She earned her Ph.D. in Agronomy – Plant Breeding from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She explores the genetic worth of Sorghum halepense, one of the most troublesome rhizomatous weeds that also carries useful genes that may be used to develop perennial grain sorghum through hybridization with Sorghum bicolor.