Drought is the most perilous abiotic stress that affects finger millet growth and productivity worldwide. For the successful production of finger millet, selection of drought tolerant varieties is necessary and critical ...
Owuor, Margaret A.; Aloo-obudho, Peninna; Cannicci, Stefano; Gitundu, James K.(2017-12)
Impact of pollutionon the feeding, bioturbation and biomass of Uca annulipes in Gazi and Mikindani mangroves, Kenya.Ocean Life 1: 61-68. Marine pollution is one of the main anthropogenic factors globally ...
Owuor, Margaret A.; Icely, John; Newton, Alice(Elsevier, 2019-06)
The management of forest ecosystems globally is shifting from a top-down-approach, through centralised management by the state, to a more inclusive bottom-up approach involving community participation. Increasingly, there ...
Mumbu, Dominic M.; Muusya, Mwinzi; Kisangau, Daniel P.(2019-04)
The aim of this study was to assess the utilization and socio–economic benefits of Osyris lanceolata (The East African Sandalwood) in Kitui County, Kenya. Data was collected using questionnaires and analysed using SPSS ...
The management of discipline has been and continues to be a thorny issue globally for educational managers. Collaborative decision making is one of the alternative disciplinary methods that governments have come up with ...
Waitumbi, John N.; Kifude, Carolyne M.; Hunja, Carol W.; Ogutu, Bernhards R.(Public Library of Science, 2018-09)
The quantity of the intra-erythrocytic deoxyhemoglobin S (Hb S) affects the level of protection against malaria and also the sickling phenomenon. This study reports on significantly
lower concentration of Hb S in females ...
A simple and efficient plant regeneration system via direct organogenesis was established in finger millet using in vitro derived shoot apical meristems. Six varieties; GBK-043128, GBK-043094, GBK-043050, GBK-043137, ...
Wambua, Judy M.; Ngene, Shadrack; Korir, Nicholas K.; Ntinyari, Winnie; Gweyi-Onyango, Joseph P.(SCIENCEDOMAIN International, 2019)
Water scarcity of fresh water in Sub-Saharan has led to utilization of the wastewater in home gardening and also in commercial production of vegetables. Wastewater is associated with various substances including nutrients ...
Matiri, E. K.; Kimiti, Jacinta M.; Kanui, Titus I.(2019-03)
Dairy production is a biologically efficient system that converts large quantities of roughage in the tropics to milk. Milk production level is determined by the levels of technologies applied to the dairy enterprise. ...
Musyoka, Sonnia N.; Liti, David M.; Ogello, Erick; Waidbacher, Herwig(Wiley, 2019-05)
Use of fish meal in aquaculture is gradually becoming unsustainable due to com‐petition, cost and ecological challenges hence the need to expand the alternative protein sources. The earthworm, ...
Jonah, James M.; Misango, Sedina; Ombuki, Charles(2019-04)
The study focused on the influence of human capital factors on performance of devolved Governments in South Eastern Kenya region. The specific objective of the study being to establish the influence of employee resourcing ...
The focus of this paper was to investigate the spatial and temporal variability of dry and wet events using the standard precipitation and evapotranspiration index (SPEI) in the Tana River Basin (TRB) in Kenya. The SPEI ...
Purpose:Strategic management is a concept that is concerned with making decisions and taking corrective actions to achieve long term targets, objectives and goals of an organization.The main purposeof thisstudy wasto ...
Ernest, M.; Hunja, Carol W.; Arakura, Y.; Haraga, Y.; Abkallo, H. M.; Zeng, W.; Jackson, D. C.; Chua, B.; Culleton, R.(Elsevier, 2018-12)
Both vaccine and therapeutic approaches to malaria are based on conventional paradigms; whole organism or single antigen epitope-based vaccines administered with or without an adjuvant, and chemotherapeutics (anti-malaria ...
Mbandi, Aderiana M.; Böhnke, Jan R.; Schwela, Dietrich; Vallack, Harry; Ashmore, Mike R.; Emberson, Lisa(MDPI, 2019-03)
In African cities like Nairobi, policies to improve vehicle fuel economy help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality, but lack of data is a major challenge. We present a methodology for estimating fuel ...
Kamonzo, Jedidah K.; Mutisya, Daniel L.; Muli, Benjamin K.; Nguluu, Simon N.(2018-12)
The dry bean, Phaseolus vulgaris (L.) production is constrained by various factors in the environment. A survey was
carried out to determine incidence of various foliage diseases and possible influence by whitefly vectors ...
Masila, Samson M.; Kauti, Matheaus K.; Kimiti, Jacinta M.(2019)
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of land degradation on agricultural land use, planning and management in Kalama Division, Machakos County; and specifically determined farmers’ considerations of land ...