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Agronomic Performance of Single Crosses of Maize in Kiambu and Embu Counties of Kenya
(2017-06)
Aims: This study was conducted to determine the agronomic performance of respective maize
single crosses in different environments in varying soil and climatic zones in Kenya.
Methodology: The trials were conducted at ...
Effects of biocontrol bacteria and earthworms on the severity of Alternaria brassicae disease and the growth of oilseed rape plants
(Elsevier, 2017-04)
Biological control of plant diseases through the addition of microbial biocontrol agents and the promotion of
earthworms can be an environmentally friendly alternative to the chemical control of plant diseases. ...
Determination of Post Striga Attachment Resistance in Selected Resistant Sorghum Lines in Kenya
(International Knowledge Press, 2017-05)
Breeding for Striga resistance in sorghum and other cereals is recognized as the most sustainable control
measure, however there is a lack of cereal germplasm that exhibit post attachment to Striga that limits this ...
Organizational Culture and Implementation of Electronic Project Monitoring Information System in Public Tertiary Institutions in Kenya
(2017-09)
This article highlights the influence of
organisational culture on implementation
of electronic project monitoring
information system (e-ProMIS) in public
tertiary institutions. It is based on literature
review and ...
Inter-seasonal Effects on Selected Maturity Parameters of DK8031 Maize Grown under Varying Irrigation and Nitrogen Levels in Embu County, Kenya
(2017-07)
Maize is a staple food and a source of carbohydrates to a large proportion of people in Kenya. The
performance of crop plants such as maize depends on a number of factors such as climate, soil
characteristics and plant ...
Trophic interactions among soil arthropods in contrasting land-use systems in Kenya, studied with stable isotopes
(Elsevier, 2017-04)
Understanding how land use intensification changes organism communities and trophic
interactions in soil is important for development of sustainable agriculture and forestry.
We analysed the food web of soil arthropods ...
Evaluation of prokaryotic diversity of five hot springs in Eritrea
(BioMed Central, 2017-09)
Background: Total community rDNA was used to determine the diversity of bacteria and archaea from water, wet
sediment and microbial mats samples of hot springs in the Eastern lowlands of Eritrea. The temperatures of ...
Yeast Extract Peptone Based Co-cultivation Media Promotes Transient GUS Expression in Tropical Maize Genotypes
(2017)
Background and Objective: Tropical maize is the most cultivated crop in sub-Saharan Africa and is a staple food to over 220 million
people. This study, evaluated the competence of four tropical maize (Zea mays L.) inbred ...
Determinants of Mobile Apps in C++ Programming Course: A reviewed Literature
(2017-10)
In recent times, the use of mobile applications (mobile apps) has become undeniable where it permits people perform thousands of
tasks through the use of smartphones, tablets or other related devices. The purpose of the ...
An L-shaped Array with Non-Orthogonal Axes – Its Cramer-Rao Bound for Direction Finding
(IEEE, 2017-08)
If a nominally L-shaped sensor-array's two legs are not exactly perpendicular, its azimuth-polar direction-of-arrival estimation would be degraded. This paper quantifies this degradation via a deterministic Cramér-Rao ...