Competing For Light, a Bean Can Behave ‘Python’

A python kills it prey by constriction. Likewise, a bean can strangle another plant in densely plants population to reach out for sunlight. It do so in what in biological…

El Nino Effected Anthracnose

Anthracnose [Colletotrichum Lindemuthianum] is a fungal disease for beans and coffee and is characterized by the appearance of sunken, brown spots with black edges on pods and berries and angular…

El Nino Killed My Kales by Plasmolysis

My kales became flaccid and wilted after rains pounded three weeks consequently. I attributed this to leaching, carbon dioxide poisoning or plasmolysis. I suspect through seepage my plot of land…

Mexican Marigold a “Witch” Allelopathic to Crops and Milk

Some weeds like Mexican marigold produce compounds that suppress the growth or germination of cultivated crops when they come close. A adaptation known as allelopathic. Worse of it, Mexican marigold…

Why Dorper Sheep are Pretty with President Ruto

An ambitious Sh600 billion National Landscapes, Ecosystem Restoration Strategy aimed at increasing the national tree cover to 30 per cent by 2023 is good music to dorper sheep for their…