Breeding investigations of finger millet characteristics including blast disease and striga resistance in Western Kenya.

Breeding investigations of finger millet characteristics including blast disease and striga resistance in Western Kenya.

Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn. ssp. coracana) is an important food, food security and cash crop in eastern and southern Africa where small-scale farmers grow it in low input farming systems. The crop has food security, nutritional, cultural, medicinal, and economic value with high ind...

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Main Author: Oduori, Chrispus O. A.
Other Authors: Derera, John.
Language:en
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Millets > Breeding > Kenya.
Millets > Disease and pest resistance > Genetic aspects.
Millets > Diseases and pests > Kenya.
Millets > Economic aspects > Kenya.
Selection (Plant breeding) > Africa.
Crop yields > Africa > Kenya.
Striga.
Plant breeding > Research > Africa.
Theses > Plant breeding.
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/74

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