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Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) Management and Utilization in the Lake Victoria Region
(Department of Horticulture Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, JKUAT, 2002)Water hyacinth has long been perceived as a problem for shipping and fishing industries and only more recently as a threat to bio-diversity. It can undergo rapid proliferation, forming dense mats of plants that cover water ... -
Yield and Yield Stability of Four Population Types of Grain Sorghum in a Semi‐Arid Area of Kenya
(Crop Breeding, Genetics & Cytology, 2000-03-01)Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is widely grown in semi‐arid tropics where local farmers depend on the adaptability of their rainfed crops to unpredictable drought and other stress factors. To investigate the effects ... -
Yield improvement of Kenyan sesame varieties
(University of Nairobi, 2001)In an effort to improve the yield of Kenyan sesame cultivars the seeds of three cultivars, SPS SIK6, SIK 096 and SPS SIK 50/1 were subjected to 300Gy, 400Gy and 600Gy of gamma rays. A first batch of seeds were subjected ... -
δ13 values of the Centrospermeae species and their ecological implications in the semi arid conditions
(Asian Network for scientific infomation, 2008)13C values of the Centrospermeae species are presented. 69.5, 28.45, 1.25 and 0.8% of the total species are C3, C4, C3-C4 and CAM photosynthetic species. The δ13C values are species dependent. δ13C values for the C3 range ...