Publications & Research Output

Key publications

  1. I. Tankam Chedjou, R. Donnelly, and C. A. Gilligan. “Optimizing crop varietal mixtures for viral disease management: A case study on cassava virus epidemics”. In: PLOS Computational Biology (2025). 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012842.
  2. I. Tankam Chedjou, J. Montarry, S. Fournet, and F. M. Hamelin. “Combining Masculinizing Resistance, Rotation, and Biocontrol to Achieve Durable Suppression of the Potato Pale Cyst Nematode: A Model”. In: Evolutionary Applications (2024). 10.1111/eva.70012.
  3. I. Tankam-Chedjou, S. Touzeau, L. Mailleret, J. J. Tewa, and F. Grognard. “Modelling and control of a banana soilborne pest in a multi-seasonal framework”. In: Mathematical Biosciences (2020). 10.1016/j.mbs.2020.108324.
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Journal Articles

[1] B. S. M. Kouakou, J. S. S. Seka, J. S. Pita, A. A. N. Yoboué, I. Tankam Chedjou, G. R. Eboulem, N. K. Kouassi, F. Tiendrébéogo, and F. Sorho. “Climatic, environmental factors and agricultural practices favoring dynamics of the spread of African cassava mosaic disease in Côte d’Ivoire”. In: Discover Agriculture (2026). doi: 10.1007/s44279-026-00550-2.

[2] R. Donnelly, I. Tankam Chedjou, and C. Gilligan. “Plant pathogen profiling with the EpiPvr package”. In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2025), 1–13. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.70219.

[3] B. S. Tchienkou-Tchiengang, I. Tankam-Chedjou, I. V. Yatat-Djeumen, and J. J. Tewa. “Multiseasonal modeling of pesticide resistance in Maize Stalk Borer”. In: Mathematical Biosciences (2025), p. 109584. doi: 10.1016/j.mbs.2025.109584.

[4] I. Tankam Chedjou, R. Donnelly, and C. A. Gilligan. “Optimizing crop varietal mixtures for viral disease management: A case study on cassava virus epidemics”. In: PLOS Computational Biology 21.9 (Sept. 2025), e1012842. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012842.

[5] I. Tankam Chedjou, J. Montarry, S. Fournet, and F. M. Hamelin. “Combining Masculinizing Resistance, Rotation, and Biocontrol to Achieve Durable Suppression of the Potato Pale Cyst Nematode: A Model”. In: Evolutionary Applications 17.9 (2024), e70012. doi: 10.1111/eva.70012.

[6] F. P. Agouanet, V. Yatat-Djeumen, I. Tankam-Chedjou, and J. J. Tewa. “Control Model of Banana Black Sigatoka Disease with Seasonality”. In: Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (2024), pp. 1–40. doi: 10.1007/s12591-024-00692-z.

[7] B. S. Tchienkou-Tchiengang, I. Tankam-Chedjou, I. V. Yatat-Djeumen, and J. J. Tewa. “Multi-seasonal modelling of the African maize stalk borer and assessment of crop residue management”. In: Applied Mathematical Modelling (Oct. 2022). doi: 10.1016/j.apm.2022.09.025.

[8] F. P. Agouanet, I. Tankam-Chedjou, R. M. Etoua, and J. J. Tewa. “Mathematical modelling of Banana Black Sigatoka Disease with delay and Seasonality”. In: Applied Mathematical Modelling 99 (Nov. 2021), pp. 380–399. doi: 10.1016/j.apm.2021.06.030.

[9] I. Tankam Chedjou, F. Grognard, J. J. Tewa, and S. Touzeau. “When and how to fallow: first steps towards banana crop yield improvement through optimal and sustainable control of a soilborne pest”. In: Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Sciences 8 (2021). doi: 10.18713/JIMIS-120221-8-4.

[10] I. Tankam-Chedjou, F. Grognard, J. J. Tewa, and S. Touzeau. “Optimal and sustainable management of a soilborne banana pest”. In: Applied Mathematics and Computation 397 (May 2021), p. 125883. doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2020.125883.

[11] I. Tankam-Chedjou, S. Touzeau, L. Mailleret, J. J. Tewa, and F. Grognard. “Modelling and control of a banana soilborne pest in a multi-seasonal framework”. In: Mathematical Biosciences 322 (Apr. 2020), p. 108324. doi: 10.1016/j.mbs.2020.108324.

[12] I. Tankam, P. Tchinda Mouofo, A. Mendy, M. Lam, J. J. Tewa, and S. Bowong. “Local Bifurcations and Optimal Theory in a Delayed Predator–Prey Model with Threshold Prey Harvesting”. In: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 25.07 (June 2015), p. 1540015. doi: 10.1142/s0218127415400155.

Book Chapters

[13] I. Tankam Chedjou. “Combinatorial Optimization of Banana Clean Seed Reliance”. In: African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Ed. by K. Barkaoui, N. Gmati, and M. Roche. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, pp. 83–99. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-90510-0_7.

Conference Papers

[14] B. S. Tchienkou-Tchiengang, I. Tankam, and J. J. Tewa. “A multi-seasonal model of the dynamics of the African maize stalk borer”. In: CARI 2022, Colloque Africain sur la Recherche en Informatique et en Mathématiques Appliquées. Tunis, Tunisia, Oct. 2022. Link.

[15] I. Tankam Chedjou, S. Touzeau, F. Grognard, L. Mailleret, and J.-J. Tewa. “A multi-seasonal model of the dynamics of banana plant-parasitic nematodes”. In: CARI’2018–14, Colloque Africain sur la Recherche en Informatique et en Mathématiques Appliquées. 2018.

[16] I. Tankam Chedjou, P. Tchinda Mouofo, and J.-J. Tewa. “Hopf bifurcation properties of a delayed predator-prey model with threshold prey harvesting”. In: CARI’2016, Colloque Africain sur la Recherche en Informatique et en Mathématiques Appliquées. 2016.

Preprints

[17] I. Tankam Chedjou. “Memory-based incremental parameter updating of a generic stochastic plant epidemic model”. In: bioRxiv (July 2025). doi: 10.1101/2025.07.11.664325.

Reports

[18] F. Grognard, I. Tankam Chedjou, Y. Fotso Fotso, and S. Touzeau. “Modelling, control, and optimization for tropical agriculture”. In: CMPD5 – Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics. AGRIS record. Fort Lauderdale, United States: CCSD, 2019. Link.

Ongoing

[20] D. Petit, F. Hamelin, I. Tankam Chedjou, J. Penlap Tamago, F. Grognard, F. Hilker, and L. Mailleret. “Seasonal behavioural plant epidemiology: clean seeds”. In: (2025). Ongoing.

[21] I. Tankam Chedjou, J. Montarry, S. Fournet, and F. Hamelin. “Predictive management of pale potato cyst nematode through demo-genetic modelling”. In: Evolution Letters (2025). Ongoing.

[22] R. Donnelly, I. Tankam-Chedjou, and C. A. Gilligan. “Epidemiology of cassava virus management – managing the temporal phases of epidemics”. In: PLOS Computational Biology (2025). Ongoing.

PhD Thesis

[23] I. Tankam Chedjou. “Modelling, analysis and control of plantain plant-parasitic nematodes”. PhD thesis. Université de Yaoundé I, Cameroun, 2021.