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Genome-Wide Identification of GASA Gene Family in Ten Cucurbitaceae Species and Expression Analysis in Cucumber
(MDPI, 2022)
Gibberellic acid-stimulated in Arabidopsis (GASA), a unique small molecular protein of
plants, plays an essential role in plant growth and development. The GASA family genes have
been identified and studied in many plants. ...
Transcriptome and Metabolome Analyses Reveal New Insights into the Regulatory Mechanism of Head Milled Rice Rate
(MDPI, 2022)
The head milled rice rate (HMRR) is the most important trait of milling quality, which
affects the final yield and quality of rice. However, few genes related to HMRR have been identified
and the regulatory mechanism of ...
Tomato Cultivation and Farmers’ Knowledge on Selected Foliar Fungal Diseases in AgroEcological Zones of Kirinyaga County, Kenya
(2022)
Diseases are hindrance to tomato production in Kirinyaga County, Kenya. However, information on
farmer’s knowledge about tomato diseases to warrant pesticide usage is scanty. Further, there is
information gap on disease ...
Household responses to COVID-19 shocks: A food security implication in Kenya
(Prime Scholars Library, 2022)
The primary objective of this study was to determine household coping mechanisms
under COVID-19 pandemics and its implication on food security in the country. Poisson
regression model was used to describe the relationship ...
Fine Mapping and Transcriptome Analysis of Virescent Leaf Gene v-2 in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)
(Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020)
Leaf color mutants are the ideal materials to explore the pathways of chlorophyll
metabolism, chloroplast development and photosynthesis system. In this study, a new
virescent leaf mutant 104Y was identified by spontaneous ...
EVALUATION OF TOMATO VARIETIES FOR RESISTANCE TO TOMATO LEAFMINER (TUTA ABSOLUTA) IN KIRINYAGA COUNTY, KENYA
(African Journal of Horticultural Science, 2020-07)
The tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta) (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is an invasive
insect pest of tomato crops in many parts of Africa. It causes substantial economic losses to
tomato crops in Kenya. Majority of ...
COLONIAL ROOTS OF FOOD SHORTAGE IN KENYA: THE MARGINALIZAION OF THE AGIKUYU WOMEN’S INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM ON FOOD CROP PRODUCTION
(International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2020-08)
Since pre-colonial period, the Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) on food crop production have
played a significant role in enhancing the supply of food in the society. This paper examines the
effects of marginalization ...
Food safety knowledge and practices of street food vendors in selected locations within Kiambu County, Kenya
(African Journal of Food Science, 2020)
The safety of street foods remains a public health concern especially in developing countries like
Kenya where foodborne illnesses associated with these foods have often been reported. This study
determined the food ...
Are the AgriTech Technologies Available, Adaptable and Practical to Young Farmers? Lessons from Tomato farmers in Kirinyaga County, Kenya
(Journal of Agricultural Science and Food Research, 2020)
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) in particular mobile phone applications and internet are
transforming how agribusiness is carried out in some parts of developing countries including Kenya. The spread ...
Restoration of degraded grasslands, but not invasion by Prosopis julifora, avoids trade‑ofs between climate change mitigation and other ecosystem services
(Nature research, 2020)
Grassland degradation and the concomitant loss of soil organic carbon is widespread in tropical arid
and semi-arid regions of the world. Aforestation of degraded grassland, sometimes by using invasive
alien trees, has ...