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Effect of Drying Method on Nutrient Integrity of Selected Components of Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata duch.) Fruit Flour
(2017-03)
Pumpkin is a multi-purpose fruit and leafy vegetable with abundant nutritional value and economic potential as a
food and industrial crop. Cucurbita moschata is the most common, heat-tolerant, better thriver in tropical ...
Evaluation of Sensory Acceptability of Bakery Products Prepared from Blended Wheat and Pumpkin Composite Flour
(Society of Science and Nature, 2017)
The pumpkin fruit of the species C. moschata Duchesne has great nutritional potential, but remains under-utilized in
Kenya. The fruits have diverse health enhancing properties. This vegetable-fruit has potential to be ...
Qualitative, Quantitative and Quality Variation of Naturalized Pumpkin Accessions in Mother and Baby Trials in Kenya
(2017)
Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata (Lam.) Poir.) is unsystematically produced in many tropical countries and
development of standard cultivars using naturalised and adapted genetic resources has not yet been done. The present ...
Nutritive value and Palatability rating of fifteen Selected Indigenous Kenyan Browse Species fed to Small East African Goats.
(Livestock Research for Rural Development 29 (6) 2017, 2017-06)
A palatability study was conducted using fifteen indigenous multipurpose tree leaf forages offered to twenty intact male Small East African Goats, 7 to 8 months and 18kg ± 2.1kg. The CP (gkg-1DM) of the best five species ...
Fluorescent SSR Markers and Capillary Electrophoresis Reveal Significant Genetic Diversity in Naturalized Pumpkin Accessions in Kenya
(2017)
This study was undertaken as a preliminary step in determining genetic diversity of naturalized pumpkins in Kenya. It
entailed allelic patterns, frequency, inbreeding coefficient, molecular variance, cluster and ...
Nutritive Value of Bakery Products From Wheat and Pumpkin Composite Flour
(2017)
The pumpkin fruit of the species C. moschata Duchesne has great nutritional potential, but remains under-utilized in Kenya. The fruits have diverse health enhancing properties. This vegetable-fruit has potential to be ...
Genetic variation of growth dynamics in maize (Zea mays L.) revealed through automated non-invasive phenotyping.
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017)
Hitherto, most quantitative trait loci of maize growth and biomass yield have been identified for a single time point, usually the final harvest stage. Through this approach cumulative effects are detected, without considering ...
Modifying Surber sampling technique increases capture of freshwater crabs in African upland streams. Inland Waters. 2:11-15
(2017-04-03)
We compared 2 methods for sampling the freshwater crab Potamonautes odhneri (Colosi) in Kenyan streams:
standard Surber sampling, in which a sample is taken over a period of several minutes; and rapid Surber sampling, ...
Effect of Debt Finance on Financial Performance of Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies in Maara Sub-county, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya
(Science Publishing Group, 2017)
Debt financing is the acquisition of funds through borrowing. Most Sacco's results into borrowing to finance their increased customer's demands thus increasing the leverage if not controlled. This study determined the ...
Perceived influence of communication at home on secondary school students’ academic performance in Meru County, Kenya.
(AESS Publications, 2017)
Home environment plays an important role in students’ academic achievement. The environmental condition and the
nature of social interaction in the family may have some influence on the academic achievement of a child. ...