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Implications of mycotoxin contamination of dairy feeds and products
(KARI publication unit, 2014)
The complex diet of ruminants, consisting of forages, concentrates, and preserved feeds, can be a source of very diverse mycotoxins that contaminate individual feed components. A number of mycotoxins are successfully ...
Rapid and conventional testing methods for microorganisms in milk
(KARI publication unit, 2014)
mmunomagnetic bead separation coupled with bead beating and real-time PCR was found to be a very
effective procedure for the isolation, separation, and detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
from milk ...
Risks of heavy metal contamination of dairy feeds and products
(KARI publication unit, 2014)
Toxic substances such as dioxins, mycotoxins, heavy metals, pesticides, veterinary drugs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are almost ubiquitous in the environment. Thus, they are also present in ingredients for animal ...
Public-private partnership approach towards enhancing water accessibility in Busia municipality, Kenya
(IWA Publishing, 2014-09-01)
Access to safe drinking water remains a challenge for most developing countries including Kenya, which is
already classified as water-scarce. To enhance water supply to consumers, the Government of Kenya enacted
the Water ...
Effects of fresh leaf materials of sesbania sesban (l.) merrill on the growth and photosynthetic pigments of nightshade (solanum nigrum l. var. popolo)
(INNSPUB, 2014-05-15)
Solanum nigrum L. is one of the African leafy vegetable consumed in Kenya. High cost of inorganic fertilizers has
made it inaccessible by smallholder farmers leading to low yields. A study was conducted at Maseno ...
A Predator-Prey Model with a Time Lag in the Migration
(2014)
We develop a two-patch migration model of the classical LotkaVoltera predator-prey system with a time lag in the migration between
patches. We show that when the migration rate is less than the prey
growth rate the species ...
Heavy metal distribution in soils of some urban and peri-urban horticultural farms in Botswana
(RUFORUM, 2014-07)
Despite the fact that there is high usage of agrochemicals and use of urban waste water for
irrigation, the concentration of potentially toxic metals in urban and peri-urban agriculture
(UPA) farms has not been widely ...
Conservation agriculture effects on earthworm populations in western Kenya and eastern Uganda soils.
(RUFORUM, 2014-07-25)
Conventional cultivation in Western Kenya and Eastern Uganda over the years has resulted into decline in soil quality and food crop production. Studying soil biodiversity under Conservation Agriculture production systems ...
Syntaxin 2 and SNAP-23 are required for regulated surfactant secretion
(2014)
The secretion of lung surfactant in alveolar type II cells is a complex process involving the fusion of lamellar bodies with the plasma membrane. This process is somewhat different from the exocytosis of hormones and ...
Determination of Tannin Concentrations in African Indigenous Vegetables, Grains and Cassava Roots from Emuhaya District, Western Kenya
(American Journal of Nutrition and Food Science, 2014-01-15)
The study evaluated tannin concentrations in four vegetables, three grains and cassava roots as the most common
foodstuffs in the diet of local communities from Emuhaya district in western Kenya and their nutritional ...