Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM): Recent submissions
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Reaction Of Maize Germplasm To Common Foliar Diseases And Variability Of Maize Streak Virus Isolates
(University Of Nairobi, 2014)Maize is an important food crop that is grown in most regions of Kenya and it is consumed in various forms by over 80% of the population. Among the biotic constraints, foliar diseases cause heavy yield losses thus ... -
Selection For Drought Tolerance, Disease Resistance, Canning And Nutritional Quality In Dry Beans
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important legume crop in eastern and central Africa. The crop is low yielding and underutilized due to several factors such as biotic and abiotic stresses and poor seed quality ... -
An Assessment Of The Transmission Of International Prices Into Rwanda’s Rice Markets
(University of Nairobi, 2014)This study evaluated the transmission of international rice market prices to the domestic Rwandan rice market using a vector error correction model that employs monthly time series data for four domestic markets Kigali, ... -
Seasonal Parasite Carriage Of Village Chicken In Mbeere Subcounty, Antiparasitic Treatments Used And Effectiveness Of Selected Anthelmintics
(University Of Nairobi, 2014)Endo- and ecto- parasites are common among village chicken; as they scavenge and forage for food they tend to pick up infective stages of the parasites. These parasites are a major cause of stress to birds where they compete ... -
Improving Effectivity Of Newcastle Disease Vaccination And Productivity, In Indigenous Chicken, Through Effective Parasite Control
(University Of Nairobi, 2014)Several factors contribute to lack of effective antibody response after Newcastle disease (ND) vaccination in indigenous chicken. Stress has been shown to be one of them and parasites are thought to play a role in inducing ... -
Autologous Skin Transplants in the Treatment of Wounds on the Distal Parts of the Limb in Cattle.
(University of Nairobi,, 1985-05)Autologous free full-thickness and pinch skin grafts have been used in man, horse and the dog in the repair of both fresh and granulating skin wounds. The literature available contained little information on skin grafting ... -
Chemical and Technological Properties of Camel (Camelus dromedarius) Milk
(University of Nairobi, 1997) -
Identifying potassium-deficient soils in Kenya by mapping and analysis of selected sites
(University of Nairobi,, 2006)Potassium (K) deficiency is emerging in intensively cropped soils of Kenya, but the magnitude of the problem has not been determined. This study was conducted to ascertain the possibilities of mapping K-deficient soils by ... -
Wetlands and water supply in Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 1992) -
Pesticide Application Regimes in Embu East and Mwea East
(University of Nairobi, 2013) -
International cooperative information services in the agricultural sciences: a comparison of CAB and AGRIS
(Loughborough University of Technology, 1984)This study identifies two international co-operative information . . &services in the agricultural sciences - CAB and AGRIS - and describes theirhistories, elements and characteristics. The two services are thencompared ... -
Saturated hydraulic conductivity - physical properties relationships of salt affected soils in Makindu,Makueni District, Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 2011)Three different kinds of farms were studied in Muhindi farm, Makindu, Makueni district. The farms were (i) virgin land, (ii) land under production, being irrigated and (iii) land completely abandoned due to salinity. These ... -
Studies in Comparative Physiology
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The physiology of Digestion and Metabolism in the Red deer
(1968)Serum acid phosphatase was measured in patients with enlarged benign and malignant prostate before and after rectal examination. Amongst the patients with benign glands, rectal examination did not produce any significant ... -
Feeding value of forage sorghum "E" 6518 at different stages of growth
(University of Nairobi, 1986) -
Effects of some preemergence herbicides on weed control in cottton (gossypium hirsutum L.)
(1985)Some promising preemergence herbicides were evaluated for efficacy and longevity of weed control in cotton at two sites (Tebere and Kibos) within the cotton growing areas of Kenya. None of the herbicides studied showed ...
