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Selection, yield evaluation, drought tolerance indices of orange-flesh sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam) hybrid clone.
(Journal of Nutrition and Food Science, 2012)
Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) varieties have high pro-vitamin A and medium amounts of iron and zinc.
Drought susceptibility is perceived as one of the major drawbacks of this crop type and currently available varieties ...
Selection, yield evaluation, drought tolerance indices of orange-flesh sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam) hybrid clone.
(Journal of Nutrition and Food Science., 2012)
Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) varieties have high pro-vitamin A and medium amounts of iron and zinc.
Drought susceptibility is perceived as one of the major drawbacks of this crop type and currently available varieties ...
Cost-effective nutrient sources for tissue culture of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)
(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 ...
Low cost tissue culture technology in the regeneration of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L) Lam)
(Res J Biol, 2012)
Sweet potato production in Eastern Africa has been declining due to lack of healthy planting materials. Developing
countries have not maximised in vitro sweet potato regeneration due to the high costs incurred. The objective ...
Prevalence and diversity of cystic echinococcosis in livestock in Maasailand, Kenya
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)
Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a zoonotic disease caused by several members of the Echinococcus granulosus species complex. In East Africa, several species/strains are known to occur in livestock and humans, but host ...
Response of Two Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas L. Lam) Varieties Regenerated on Low Cost Tissue Culture Medium
(David Publishing Company, Inc., 2012)
Plant tissue culture continues to be of great interest within the realms of molecular biology, plant breeding and plant health.
However, different plant cultivars have different culture efficiencies to tissue culture. In ...
The use of power ultrasound for the accelerated curing of pork
(58 th International Congress of Meat Science and Technology, 2012)
Meat curing is a time consuming and labor intensive process. Power ultrasound (US) induces cell disruption and
increases mass transfer. This study aims to assess whether US can accelerate the transfer of ...
In vitro micropropagation of cassava through low cost tissue culture
(Maxwell Science Publishing, 2012)
Adoption of drought-tolerant crops such as cassava can help alleviate food insecurity in sub-Saharan
Africa. However, production is constrained by lack of disease-free planting materials. This can be circumvented
through ...
In Vitro Production of Trichothecenes and Zearalenone by Fusarium Isolates from Equatorial Barley (Hordeum vulgare l.) grown in Kenya
(African Scholarly Science Communications Trust, 2012)
ABSTRACT
Fusarium head blight (scab) is a devastating disease of wheat and barley throughout the world. The disease has been reported worldwide wherever cereals are grown, cutting across diverse ecological and geographical ...
Human impacts on two wetlands in Nairobi National Park
(Asian Journal of Wetlands Ecology, 2012)
Environmental gradients in physico-chemical properties and distance to human settlements at two wetlands (around Hyena and Nalogomon dams) in the Nairobi National Park were studied. Ordination showed that over 84% of the ...