<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Morphological Characterization and Selection of Spider Plant (Cleome Gynandra) Accessions from Kenya and South Africa"^^ . "Characterization of selected spider plant accessions from Kenya and South Africa was performed in order\r\nto individuate those with distinct morphological traits for future improvement programs. For this purpose, thirty two\r\naccessions of spider plant, 23 sourced from Kenyan genebank and nine sourced from South African genebank, were\r\nplanted at the University of Nairobi’s Kabete field station, in a randomized complete block design with 3\r\nreplications. Eleven morphological traits based on modified FAO (1995) spider plant descriptors were used in\r\ncharacterization. Traits evaluated were growth habit, flower colour, stem colour, stem hairiness, petiole colour,\r\npetiole hairiness, leaf colour, leaf pubescence, leaf shape, leaf blade tip shape, and number of leaflets per leaf. The\r\nscored data were analyzed using DARwin software v6 and Genstat v14. Shannon diversity index (H’), multivariate\r\nmethods of principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering analyses of unweighted pair group method of\r\narithmetic mean were assessed for all the traits. Estimates of Shannon-Weaver diversity index (H’) for the\r\nmorphological traits were generally high (H’>0.500). The H' index indicated inter-country diversity to be greater\r\nthan the intra-country diversity. Principal component analysis identified seven important morphological traits (stem\r\ncolour, stem hairiness, petiole colour, petiole hairiness, leaf hairiness, leaf shape and number of leaflets per leaf) for\r\ncharacterizing spider plant accessions. The hierarchical cluster analysis revealed two major clusters (Cluster I and II)\r\nfor the 32 accessions grown, with clustering of accessions occurring along regional basis. Cluster I consisted of\r\nSouth African accessions only while cluster II had mainly Kenyan accessions and two South African accessions.\r\nThe relatively high levels of dissimilarity revealed in this study among the accessions for traits evaluated, especially\r\naccessions from the two different countries, indicates high prospects for genetic improvement of the crop through\r\ncross breeding by using materials from different geographical origins."^^ . "2015" . . "7" . "4" . . "Maxwell Scientific Organization"^^ . . . "Asian Journal of Agricultural Sciences"^^ . . . "20413882" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "J L"^^ . "Ambuko"^^ . "J L Ambuko"^^ . . "D A"^^ . "Odeny"^^ . "D A Odeny"^^ . . "D O"^^ . "Wasonga"^^ . "D O Wasonga"^^ . . "B G"^^ . "Crampton"^^ . "B G Crampton"^^ . . "G N"^^ . "Chemining’wa"^^ . "G N Chemining’wa"^^ . . . . . . "Morphological Characterization and Selection of Spider Plant (Cleome Gynandra) Accessions from Kenya and South Africa (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "AJAS_7_4_36-44_2015.pdf"^^ . . . "Morphological Characterization and Selection of Spider Plant (Cleome Gynandra) Accessions from Kenya and South Africa (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Morphological Characterization and Selection of Spider Plant (Cleome Gynandra) Accessions from Kenya and South Africa (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Morphological Characterization and Selection of Spider Plant (Cleome Gynandra) Accessions from Kenya and South Africa (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Morphological Characterization and Selection of Spider Plant (Cleome Gynandra) Accessions from Kenya and South Africa (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Morphological Characterization and Selection of Spider Plant (Cleome Gynandra) Accessions from Kenya and South Africa (Other)"^^ . . . . . "HTML Summary of #9261 \n\nMorphological Characterization and Selection of Spider Plant (Cleome Gynandra) Accessions from Kenya and South Africa\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Entomology"@en . .