School of Agriculture and Food Security: Recent submissions
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Participatory consumer evaluation of twelve sweetpotato varieties in Kenya
(African Journals OnLine (AJOL), 2010)Eleven improved sweetpotato varieties; “Kemb10, SPK004, Mugande, Namaswakhe, K117, Polista, Bungoma, Odinga, 292-H-12, Zapallo” and “Nyathi Odiewo (improved) ”, were tested against four popular farmer varieties; “Nyathi ... -
Unravelling the potential of sweet sorghum for sugar production in Kenya
(Third RUFORUM Biennial Meeting, 2012)Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an important food and increasingly industrial crop and serves as a source for starch and sugars for biofuel production world wide and especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Sweet sorghum ... -
Screening of Sweet Sorghum (Sorghumbicolor (L.) Moench) Varieties for Sugar and Biomass Production
(Springer India, 2013-09-01)Sweet sorghum has elicited the interest of breeders due to its capacity to provide renewable energy products, industrial commodities, food and animal feed. Whereas the technologies to process sugar products from sweet ... -
Genetic diversity and eco-geographical distribution of Eleusine species collected from Ethiopia.
(African Journals OnLine (AJOL), 2014-02-21)Eleusine is a small grass genus with three basic chromosome numbers (x=8, 9 and 10) and comprises of eight species including E. coracana subsp. coracana, (finger millet), which is an important subsistence crop in Africa ... -
High genetic diversity for improvement of sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) genotypes for sugar and allied products
(2014-05-30)Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is a cultivated sorghum recognized as potential alternative source of bio-fuel due to its high fermentable sugar content in the stalk. It provides renewable energy products, ... -
Generation Means Analysis for Estimation of Genetic Parameters for Striga hermonthica Resistance in Maize (Zea mays L.)
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2015-08-01)Striga hermonthica is a parasitic weed species that causes considerable yield loss in susceptible maize cultivars in western Kenya. A generation means analysis was conducted to estimate gene effects influencing resista ... -
Effect of Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth on yield and yield components of maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids in Western Kenya
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2016)Striga hermonthica (Striga) weed is widespread in Kenya, where it causes significant cereal crop losses, particularly when susceptible varieties are grown. The use of maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes that support reduced ... -
Genotype environment interaction on sugar and biomass production in sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L). Moench) in western Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2016-02-29)Genotype x environment interaction was determined from field experiments conducted to evaluate sweet sorghum genotypes in Western Kenya during the 2011, 2012 and 2013 rainy season from April to July at Alupe, Kibos, Homa ... -
Identification of SNP and SSR markers in finger millet using next generation sequencing technologies
(Public Library of Science, 2016-07-25)Finger millet is an important cereal crop in eastern Africa and southern India with excellent grain storage quality and unique ability to thrive in extreme environmental conditions. Since negligible attention has been paid ... -
Combining ability of parents and hybrids for sugar yield and its attributing traits in sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]
(Springer India, 2017-02-01)An investigation was carried out to assess the combining ability and nature of gene action in respect of sugar yield and its attributing traits in 25 new hybrids of sweet sorghum developed by crossing five (5) high-sugar ... -
The role of Kenya in the trans-african spread of maize streak virus strain a
(Elsevier, 2017-03-15)Maize streak virus (MSV), the causal agent of maize streak disease (MSD), is the most important viral pathogen of Africa’s staple food crop, maize. Previous phylogeographic analyses have revealed that the most widely-distributed ... -
UGbS-Flex, a novel bioinformatics pipeline for imputation-free SNP discovery in polyploids without a reference genome: finger millet as a case study
(BioMed Central, 2018-12-01)Research on orphan crops is often hindered by a lack of genomic resources. With the advent of affordable sequencing technologies, genotyping an entire genome or, for large-genome species, a representative fraction of the ... -
Mechanistic understanding of iron toxicity tolerance in contrasting rice varieties from Africa: 1. Morpho-physiological and biochemical responses
(CSIRO PUBLISHING, 2019-01-21)Iron (Fe) is a fundamental element involved in various plant metabolic processes. However, when Fe uptake is excessive, it becomes toxic to the plant and disrupts cellular homeostasis. The aim of this study was to determine ... -
Mechanistic understanding of iron toxicity tolerance in contrasting rice varieties from Africa: 2. Root oxidation ability and oxidative stress control
(CSIRO PUBLISHING, 2020-02-03)To enhance breeding efficiency for iron (Fe) toxicity tolerance and boost lowland rice production in sub-Saharan Africa, we have characterised the morphological, physiological and biochemical responses of contrasting rice ... -
Screening Of a Selected Tomato Varieties for Response to RalstoniasolanacearumINMASENO, Western Kenya
(Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, 2020-06-08)Tomato (Solanumlycopersicum) is an important horticultural vegetable crop among small and large scale farmers in Kenya, grown for its nutritional and commercial purposes. However, gains from its production is limited by ... -
Finger millet
(Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006)Finger millet, Eleusine coracana Gaertn L., is a cereal grown for food in Africa and Southern Asia, mainly India (the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bilhar, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh) and Nepal. In Africa, the ... -
The genetic map of finger millet, Eleusine coracana
(Springer-Verlag, 2007-01-01)Abstract Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), ampliWed fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), expressed-sequenced tag (EST), and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used to generate a genetic map of the ... -
Comparative analyses reveal high levels of conserved colinearity between the finger millet and rice genomes
(Springer-Verlag, 2007-08-01)Finger millet is an allotetraploid (2n = 4x = 36) grass that belongs to the Chloridoideae subfamily. A comparative analysis has been carried out to determine the relationship of the finger millet genome with that of rice. ... -
Assessment of four commercial watermelon cultivars and one local landrace for their response to naturally occurring diseases pests and non-pathogenic disorders in sub-humid …
(Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN), 2008)Four commercial watermelon cultivars available in Kenya and one local landrace were evaluated for their susceptibility/resistance to naturally occurring diseases, pests and non-pathogenic disorders. The accessions included ... -
Agronomic performance of three most popular commercial watermelon cultivars in Kenya as compared to one newly introduced cultivar and one local landrace grown on dystric …
(Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN)., 2008)Agronomic performance trial involving five cultivated watermelon accessions available in Kenya was conducted at Maseno University Research Fields for two seasons between year 2007 and 2008. The accessions included three ...
