Browsing School of Agriculture & Food Science by Author "Ombori, O"
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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 ... -
Enhancing farmers’ access to disease-free sweetpotato planting materials through low cost tissue culture for food security and poverty alleviation in Eastern Africa.
Ogero, S K; Mwangi, M; Gitonga, NM; Ombori, O; Ngugi, M (2014)Sweetpotato is a major food staple in Eastern Africa because of its ease of cultivation and ability to thrive in marginal areas. However, limited supply of disease-free planting materials constrains production. Tissue ... -
Low technology tissue culture materials for initiation and multiplication of banana plants
Gitonga, NM; Ombori, O; Murithi, KSD; Ngugi, M (African Crop Science Society (Uganda), 2010)Tissue culturing has become a routine method for propagating plants in high technology laboratories. The cost of production using conventional tissue culture is, however, high for most of the countries in the sub-Saharan ... -
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 ... -
Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from immature embryos of tropical maize (Zea mays L.) inbred lines
Ombori, O; Gitonga, NM; Machuka, J (2008)Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration was achieved from immature embryos of six maize (Zea mays L.) inbred lines (CML216, CML78, CML331, TL18, TL27 and MU25). Callus was initiated on N6 medium supplemented with ... -
Transformation of recalcitrant maize elite inbreds using in vitro shoot meristematic cultures induced from germinated seedlings.
Ombori, O; Gitonga, NM {et..al} (Orgz, 1997)