Browsing School of Agriculture & Food Science by Author "Ogero, KO"

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    • Cost-effective nutrient sources for tissue culture of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) 

      Ogero, KO; Gitonga, NM; Ombori, O; Ngugi, M (Academic Journals (Kenya), 2012)
      Application of tissue culture technology is constrained by high costs making seedlings unaffordable. The objective of this study was to evaluate the possibility of using locally available fertilizers ...

    • A low-cost medium for sweet potato micropropagation 

      Ogero, KO; Gitonga, NM; Mwangi, M; Ombori, O; Ngugi, M (African Crop Science Conference Proceedings, 2011)
      Tissue culture has not been optimised in sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L) Lam) propagation due to high costs. With an aim of producing affordable disease-free seedlings, a low cost medium was developed and used to ...