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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 ...

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 ...