Browsing by Author "Namaganda, Josephine M."

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    Host Status of the Common Weeds of Banana Establishments to Banana Nematodes in Central Uganda
    (Academic Journal of Plant Sciences, 2018) Namaganda, Josephine M.; Kashaija, Imelda N.; Maslen, Rolf
    Ninety-one weed species belonging to 27 families were identified from 14 banana plots during a survey study to identify the common weeds of banana establishments in central Uganda. The host status of 13 weed species to the banana nematodes Radopholus similis, Helicotylenchus multicinctus and Pratylenchus goodeyi was studied in a screenhouse experiment. R.similis was recovered from only banana roots while H.multicinctus was present in soil and/or roots of banana and nine weed species. H.multicinctus was the only nematode species recovered from soil around six weed species, at population densities much lower than those recovered from banana. P.goodeyi was present in roots of banana and only two weed species, namely, Digitaria velutina and Eleusine indica, at a very low population density compared to banana. The reproductive ratings show that all the weeds in this study are non-hosts of R.similis; D. velutina a poor host of both H.multicinctus and P.goodeyi while Amaranthussp. and S. nigrum are poor hosts of H.multicinctus and non-hosts of P.goodeyi. No nematodes were recovered from Tagetes minuta, Cyperus esculentus, Senecio disfolius and Digitaria scalarum, indicating that these four weed species are non-hosts of banana nematodes.
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    The Ivory Coast and Uganda
    (Springer, 2008) Adiko, Amoncho; Gnonhouri, Philippe G.; Namaganda, Josephine M.
    country of 322 thousand square kilometers, and inhabited by 16 million people, the Ivory Coast is considered the ‘economic lung’ of West Africa, with a GDP of 16.3 billion dollars in 2005. Nonetheless, social unrest and the instability of the international commodity market made the country’s annual growth rate fall from 7% in the 1990’s to 2% (Anonymous, 2006). The Ivory Coast’s prosperity is based primarily on agriculture, which accounts for 35% of the GDP, 70% of the export earnings, and 66% of the employment positions (Anonymous, 1997a). Major agricultural products are coffee, cocoa (40% of the world’s production), palm-kernel oil, cotton, rubber, banana, pineapple, and mango. The offshore reserves of oil and natural gas are also important assets for the national economy.