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Optimizing experimental procedures for quantitative evaluation of crop plant performance in high throughput phenotyping systems
(2015-01)
Abstract
Detailed and standardized protocols for plant cultivation in environmentally controlled conditions are an essential prerequisite to conduct reproducible experiments with precisely defined treatments. Setting up ...
Targeted sequencing reveals largscale sequence polymorphism in maize candidate genes for biomass production and composition PLoS ONE 10(7)
(2015-07-07)
Abstract
A major goal of maize genomic research is to identify sequence polymorphisms responsible for phenotypic variation in traits of economic importance. Large-scale detection of sequence variation is critical for ...
Towards a Graph-Theoretic Approach to Hybrid Performance Prediction from Large-Scale Phenotypic Data.
(2015-09)
High-throughput biological data analysis has received a large amount of interest in the last decade due to pioneering technologies that are able to automatically generate large-scale datasets by performing millions of ...
Assessing the influence of knowledge of type and numbers of livestock exchange in stock friends’ concept as a strategy in poverty alleviation; case of Ngomeni Community of Mwingi District in Kenya
(2015)
One of the challenge-facing Kenya is high levels of poverty. Different ways of poverty alleviation are applied among them is stock friends strategy. The strategy is ineffective among the Ngomeni community of ...
Nutrient digestibility in diets containing low-phytate barley, low-phytate field pea and normal phytate field pea, and the effects of microbial phytase on energy and nutrient digestibility in the low and normal-phytate field pea fed to pigs
(Elsevier, 2015-05)
Five ileal cannulated barrows (43.6 ± 1.3 kg BW) were used in a 5 × 5 Latin square design experiment to determine the apparent (AID) and standardized (SID) ileal digestibility of N and amino acids (AA) in low-phytate field ...
Characterization of clays from Tharaka-Nithi County in Kenya for industrial and agricultural applications
(2015)
Clay samples from Tharaka-Nithi County in Kenya were characterized by hydrometer, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), TGA, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and powder diffraction ...
Genetic Diversity Analysis in Tropical Maize Germplasm for Stem Borer and Storage Pest Resistance using Molecular Markers and Phenotypic traits
(2015)
One hundred maize inbred lines and eighty four hybrids were characterized for resistance to maize stem borer and
post-harvest insect pests. This was achieved using genetic distance and population structure based on simple ...
Effects of irrigation rate and leaf harvest intensity on multi-purpose pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata duch.) growth and quality
(International Journal of Development and Sustainability LLC, Japan, 2015)
Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata Duchsene) is rapidly gaining popularity in dishes in Kenya. The fruits, leaves and seeds are becoming popular due to their nutritional and medicinal properties. However, water stress and irregular ...
Optimization of seed potato specific density, starch and dry matter contents and tuberization capacity of resultant plants through integrated irrigation, nitrogen and phosphorus management.
(Science Publishing Group, 2015-08-01)
A study was conducted in a Rainshelter (RTrial) at the Horticultural Research and Teaching Farm of Egerton University to determine the effect of integrated application of irrigation water, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) ...
First detailed morphological characterisation of qualitative traits of extensive naturalized pumpkin germplasm in Kenya
(ISDS LLC, Japan, 2015)
Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata (Lam.) Poir) is emerging as an important fruit-vegetable in Kenya. However, its economic and nutritional benefits remain under-exploited, while its conservation is threatened owing to limited ...