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Reactions of cultivars of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to bean common mosaic virus (BCMV)
(Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, 1988-04)3 plants of each cultivar were raised in pots filled with sterile soil, 451 bean cultivars were tested in all. Inoculum was prepared from 30-day-old plants of P. vulgaris. Seedlings of test varieties were inoculated when ... -
Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Scavenging in Hot Air Preconditioning Mediated Alleviation of Chilling Injury in Banana Fruits
(Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, KenyaLaboratory of Pomology, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, 2013)Banana fruits (Musa sp., AAA group, Cavendish subgroup cv. ‘Williams’) were exposed to two hot air treatment regimes namely 50℃ for 10 minutes (HAT A) and 40℃ for 60 minutes (HAT B). The fruits were then stored at chilling ... -
Real or Perceived: The Environmental Health Risks of Urban Sack Gardening in Kibera Slums of Nairobi, Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology, 2013-03)Cities around the world are undergoing rapid urbanization, resulting in the growth of informal settlements or slums. These informal settlements lack basic services, including sanitation, and are associated with joblessness, ... -
Real-time PCR for quantification of eleven individual Fusarium species in cereals
(2009)Contamination of cereals with Fusarium species is one of the major sources of mycotoxins in food and feed. Quantification of biomass of Fusarium species is essential to understand the interactions of individual species in ... -
Realities in breed improvement programmes for dairy goats in East and Central Africa
(Departmeni of Animal Production, University of Nairobi, 2009)Increasing population pressure, land scarcity and diminishing production resources are promoting goat production in the tropics. Dairy goat breeding (DGB) projects have been implemented by development agencies, governments ... -
Rearing of Dairy Cows 2002
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Rearing the American bollworm Heliothis armigera on a grass-meal diet.
(University of Nairobi, 1981)Heliothis armigera (Hb.) was shown to be capable of growing and developing on a simple diet that was based principally on grass meal made from star grass (Cynodon dactylon). Neonatal H. armigera larvae introduced into the ... -
Recent Advances into Understanding Some Aspects of the Structure and Function of Mammalian and Avian Lungs
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Vetinary Anatomy and physiology, 2010-09)Recent findings are reported about certain aspects of the structure and function of the mammalian and avian lungs that include (a) the architecture of the air capillaries (ACs) and the blood capillaries (BCs); (b) the ... -
Recent answers to farmland degradation illustrated by case studies from African farming systems
(2005)Farmland of relatively marginal Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture (LEISA) farmers in developing countries is prone to degradation from various local environmental and management causes. In the Traditional ... -
Recent developments in managing tuber blight of potato (Solanum tuberosum) caused by Phytophthora infestans
(Department of Plant Science and Crop Protetion, 2009)Tuber blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, occurs wherever potato (Solanum tuberosum) is cultivated and accounts for significant losses under field and storage conditions. After decades of research in late blight, ... -
Recent trends in the incidence of livestock and human hydatid disease in Kenya
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Receptive field organisation and electrophysiological responses of spinal cord thermoreactive neurones in the rat
(University of Nairobi.Department of Animal Physiology, 1988)Receptive fields and electrophysiological responses of seventy-three thermoreactive neurones were studied. The receptive fields were 1 to 10 mm wide and 1 to 15 mm long, for the warm thermoreactive neurones and 5 to 15 mm ... -
Reconnaissance Soil Survey of Bondo Area
(Department of soil science, 1981) -
Reconstructing the origin and dispersal patterns of village chickens across East Africa: insights from autosomal markers.
(University of Nairobi.Department of Animal Production, 2013-05)Unravelling the genetic history of any livestock species is central to understanding the origin, development and expansion of agricultural societies and economies. Domestic village chickens are widespread in Africa. Their ... -
Recovery and identification of Besnoitia and other coccidia from cat faeces around Kabete in Kenya
(Department of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Nairobi, 1994)Faecal samples were collected from 50 cats around Kabete, Kenya, and were examined for coccidian oocysts. Oocysts of Besnoitia wallacei (in 2) were recovered for the first time in Kenya. Oocysts of Isospora felis (in 33), ... -
Recovery of different Listeria ribotypes from naturally contaminated, raw refrigerated meat and poultry products with two primary enrichment media.
(Faculty of Agriculture, 1996)Isolation rates for Listeria monocytogenes and the other Listeria spp. typically improve when samples are enriched in more than one primary enrichment medium. This study evaluated the abilities of two primary enrichment ... -
The recovery of wounds by dehorning
(University of Nairobi,college of agriculture and veterinary sciences,, 1990) -
Recycling Nutrients from OrganicWastes in Kenya’s Capital City
(International Potato Center,Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2010)The question how much of the potential soil nutrients contained in urban wastes are being used and what processes are involved led to this study in the early 2000s. The issue is of central importance to understanding the ... -
Recycling Nutrients from OrganicWastes in Kenya’s Capital City
(International Potato Center,Department Of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi, 2010)The question how much of the potential soil nutrients contained in urban wastes are being used and what processes are involved led to this study in the early 2000s. The issue is of central importance to understanding the ... -
Red muscle fibre and capillary dimensions in different sizes of a tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Trewavas)
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Medicine, 2006-01)Measurements of muscle dimensions that affect respiration in relation to body weight were carried out in a tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. The fish used in all measurements weighed 0.65–812.3 g. The data were analysed with ...