Miriam Gaceri Kinyua

Field Screening of Elite Cassava (Manihot esculenta) Mutant Lines for their Response to Mosaic and Brown Streak Viruses

Lydia Chepkoech Kimno, Miriam Gaceri Kinyua, Isaac Kofi Bimpong & Javan Omondi Were · Journal of Experimental Agriculture International · 2023

Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) and Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) have been major limiting biotic factors to the productivity of cassava farming in Kenya. Development of resistant cassava varieties is most effective way. The study was to determine response of elite cassava lin...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jeai/2023/v45i92193

Virulence and Molecular Detection of Cassava Mosaic and Brown Streak Virus Genes on Elite Mutant Cassava Lines

Lydia Chepkoech Kimno, Javan Omondi Were, Isaac Kofi Bimpong, Miriam Gaceri Kinyua, Were, Javan Omondi, Stephen Kimno, Kinyua, Miriam Gaceri & Kimno, Lydia Chepkoech · Biotechnology Journal International · 2023

Unavailability of germplasm with Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) and Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) tolerance genes remains the main bottleneck towards management of the two diseases in tropic and sub-tropic regions in Africa. We assessed the pathogenicity of two viruses and es...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/bji/2023/v27i6701