Phenotyping maize (Zea mays L.) for drought tolerance is costly and time consuming. Our
objectives were to determine (i) the heritability, genetic variance, and genetic correlations for …

… Cathrine Ziyomo … Cathrine Ziyomo … Cathrine Ziyomo is a senior scientist at the
International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. …

Coffee Berry Disease (CBD) caused by the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum kahawae
destroys about 80% of the crop on susceptible Coffea arabica cultivars if no control is applied. …

Plants obtain soil-resident elements that support growth and metabolism from the water-flow
facilitated by transpiration and active transport processes. The availability of elements in the …

Septoria tritici blotch, caused by the fungus Zymoseptoria titici, poses serious and persistent
challenges to wheat cultivation in Ethiopia and worldwide. Deploying resistant cultivars is a …

We conducted a survey to assess the occurrence and severity of rice blast and brown spot
diseases on popular cultivars grown in the Busia, Kirinyaga, and Kisumu counties of Kenya in …

A corn (Zea mays L.) and kura clover (Trifolium ambiguum M. Bieb.) intercropping system
provides ecological services, but competition for water between the grain crop and the living …

Sesame is an important oil crop widely cultivated in Africa and Asia. Characterization of genetic
diversity and population structure of sesame genotypes in these continents can be used …

Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) is a widely used cool season turfgrass with outstanding
turf quality and grazing tolerance. High temperature is the key factor restricting the …

Elemental accumulation in seeds is the product of a combination of environment and a wide
variety of genetically controlled physiological processes. We measured the kernel elemental …