A5009056238- Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques
- Phosphorus and nutrient management
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Polymer-Based Agricultural Enhancements
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
2020-2024
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
2020
Thermophilic composting is a promising method of sanitizing pathogens in manure and source agriculturally important thermostable enzymes microorganisms from organic wastes. Despite the extensive studies on compost prokaryotes, shifts microbial profiles under influence various green materials days are still not well understood, considering complexity material sources. Here, effect regimens diversity, abundance, metabolic capacity prokaryotic communities thermophilic environment was...
Thermophilic composting is a promising soil and waste management approach involving diverse micro macro-organisms, including eukaryotes. Due to sub-optimal amounts of nutrients in manure, supplemental feedstock materials such as Lantana camara, Tithonia diversifolia twigs are used composting. These have, however, been reported have antimicrobial activity in-vitro experiments. Furthermore, the phytochemical analysis has shown differences their complexities, thus possibly requiring various...
Abstract Bean flower thrips ( Megalurothrips usitatus ) is a major French bean Phaseolus vulgaris L.) pest. Small‐scale farmers manage the pest using mixed plant extracts although their efficacy has not been scientifically validated. We evaluated of comprising; Capsicum frutescens , Allium sativum Lantana camara Tagetes minuta and Azadirachta indica against M. under laboratory screenhouse. identified quantified secondary metabolites associated with insecticidal activity spectrophotometry...