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Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in Agri-food chains
(University of NairobiInstitute For Climate Change and Adaptation, 2011-09)The significance of private standards and associated local level initiatives in agri-food value chains are increasingly recognized. However whilst issues related to compliance and impact at the smallholder or worker level ... -
Biflavanoids of the Cycadales
(1975)Biflavanoid patterns of leaves of 82 species of the order Cycadales comprising 3 families and 10 genera have been determined. The biflavanoids were identified by TLC, UV, NMR and MS studies. Pattern differences between ... -
Biflavones of Dioon,
(University of NairobiCollege of biological and physical science, 1973)Seven biflavones, amentoflavone, bilobetin, sequoiaflavone, ginkgetin, sciadopitysin, 7,4 Œ,7 Œ,4triple prime-tetra-O-methylamentoflavone, and diooflavone (amentoflavone hexamethyl ether), were identified from extracts of ... -
Bilharziasis of the spinal cord
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Binding and water solubility enhancement of 14C-benzo[a]pyrene by dissolved organic matter in freshwater in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi,Department of Chemistry,, 2006-12) -
Bioactive compounds from some Kenyan ethnomedicinal plants: Myrsinaceae, Polygonaceae and Psiadia punctulata
(University of NairobiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Nairobi, 2002-10)There are several described medicinal plants in Kenya from a flora of approximately 10,000 members. Strong cross-medical information from the 42 ethnic groups points to the high potential of some of these species. The ... -
Bioactive properties of tagetes minuta l.(asteraceae) essential oils: a review
(University of Nairobi, 2016)Mexican marigold (Tagetes minuta L.) and its accruing products have a long worldwide history of human uses such as food, therapeutics and aromatherapy which are inherent in the plant’s unique chemical composition and ... -
Bioactive Substances From Kenyan Ethno-medicinal Plants
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Bioactivity of 'Flemingin A' and other Natural Products from the leaves of Flemingia grahamiana
(Department of Chemistry; Kyambogo University,Department of Chemistry, University of Nairobi,Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg,, 2011)Flemingia graharriiana (Wight & Arn.) is an erect herb or sub-shrub up to 1.8 m tall with deep (sometimes tuberous) roots and 3-foliate alternate leaves. It is distributed in Tropical Africa and occurs in open and wooded ... -
Biochemical changes in the plasma of vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense
(University of Nairobi, 2008-05-16)Biochemical evaluation of plasma during disease conditions gives an indication of the functional status of the various body organs. Biochemical analysis of plasma from 32 vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) infected ... -
Biochemical identification of Phlebotomus (Larroussius) pedifer and Phlebotomus (Larroussius) elegonensis
(1989)Females of the vector of Leishmania aerhiopica, Phlebotomus pedifer. have previously been morphologically indistinguishable from the non-vector. P. elegonensis. The present studies have biochemically separated these two ... -
Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP) of Market Wastes from Nairobi Inoculated With Dagoretti Slaughterhouse Waste
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Background: Anaerobic degradation entails the conversion of substrate organic matter to biogas. A wide variety of substrate has been employed. The biochemical methane potential of twenty market wastes was investigated ... -
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
(ElsevierDepartment of botany, 1975)Biflavanoid patterns of leaves of 82 species of the order Cycadales comprising 3 families and 10 genera have been determined. The biflavanoids were identified by TLC, UV, NMR and MS studies. Pattern differences between ... -
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
(Department of botany, University of Nairobi, 1974)Leaf extracts of 540 plants representing 24 species of the genus Prosopis from North and South America were analyzed by 2-D PC and high voltage electrophoresis for their protein and non-protein amino acids. In addition to ... -
Biochemistry in a developing country. II. Kenya
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Biocontrol potential of the entomogenous fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae for tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) at developmental sites
(University of Nairobi.School of Biological Sciences, 1995-11)Spores of two entomogenous fungi, Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae, were mixed with sterile sand at two different concentrations (1.0 and 0.5 g/liter) and larvae of tsetse flies Glossina morsitans morsitans ... -
Bioconversion of linear alkanes to dicarboxylic acids using genetically engineered yeast strains
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Biodegradable water hyacinth cellulose-graft-poly(ammonium acrylate-co-acrylic acid) polymer hydrogel for potential agricultural application.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Swollen cellulose fibres isolated from water hyacinth were utilized in the synthesis of water hyacinth cellulose-graft-poly(ammonium acrylate-co-acrylic acid) polymer hydrogel (PHG). Acrylic acid (AA) partially neutralized ... -
Biodegradation and Detoxification of Malachite Green Dye Using Novel Enzymes from Bacillus cereus Strain KM201428: Kinetic and Metabolite Analysis
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Enzyme based degradation of organic pollutants is a promising detoxifying approach due to the promiscuous nature of the enzyme, efficiency, cost effective and ecofriendly. In the present study, we have carried out detailed ... -
Biodegradation properties of white rot fungi in Karura forest Kenya
(School of Biological Sciences, 2004)