| Name and Qualifications | Specialty | Research area Interests |
Nancy Mungai, PhD. Professor, Soil Science
| Rhizobiology, Carbon and Nitrogen cycling, and nutrient management | Native rhizobial strains in bean and soybean production systems, Soil nutrient management, testing fertilizer formulations, liming and lime requirement to manage acid soils, Sustainable agricultural systems with special emphasis on soil C and N cycling, working with rural communities to adopt appropriate agricultural technologies that are sustainable at the farm level |
Samuel Mwonga, PhD. Associate Professor, Soil Science | Soil fertility/Soil Health Management | - Soil health assessment and management, low input farming systems and conservation agriculture systems. |
Soil Fertility Management Plant Nutrition | Sustainable Soil fertility Management Cropping systems | |
Josphine Ouma, PhD, Professor Associate Professor, Agronomy | Agronomy,Crop physiology;Cropping Systems | Cereal- legume cropping systems; fertilizers use; crop propagation methods; agronomy and crop physiology research on a wide range of agronomic crops; utilization of organic by-products of agricultural industrial processing in ameliorating soil conditions. |
| Crop Protection (Stored Products Entomology) | Bioprospecting and development of plant-based biocontrol agents of pre- and post-harvest pests of food crops. Participatory adaptive research, community outreach and consultancy services focusing on bio-intensive pest management, underutilized indigenous crops, climate change and agro biodiversity, enhanced food and nutrition security, and livelihoods in smallholder agriculture. |
Crop Physiology, secondary plant metabolites & plant responses to stress, | Research and promotion of underutilized high-value crops for food, feed, and industrial use | |
Plant breeding and plant Biotechnology | Classical and Molecular Plant Breeding, Cytogenetics including Phylogenetics, Gene Expression Profiles, Marker Assisted Selection, and Plant diversity studies | |
Crop protection Crop Entomology | IPM, Biological, and ecological pest control | |
Plant Breeding and Genetics | Breeding for resistance to biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, Molecular marker assisted breeding, Genomic selection, Genome-wide association studies and Demand led breeding | |
Plant Pathology (Mycology) | Plant diseases, Biotechnology, Climate change adaptation, Organic farming | |
Plant pathology and Biotechnology | ||
Crop and Insect Pathology | Applied aspects of research in crop protection with a bias in crop and insect pathology including development of insect pathogens as biological control agents for sustainable pest control. | |
Shem khakai PhD Lecturer | ||
Horticultural/Fruit Crop Production, Management and Allied Biosciences (Biotechnology, Physiology, Breeding, Pathology and Nematology) | 1) Horticultural/pomology (fruit science) value chains and value addition technologies. 2) Application of plant biotechnology techniques in micropropagation. 3) Horticultural plant physiology, breeding, pathology and nematology adaptive studies. 4) Fruit orchard and plant nursery management and business development. 5) Germplasm/seed studies and development of neglected and underutilized species. 6) Research innovations commercialization and entrepreneurship. | |
Horticulture/ vegetable science | Vegetable Cropping systems, manipulation of crop environment, integrated nutrient and pest management, agripreneurship, climate smart vegetable production, circular and bioeconomy research | |
Joshua Otieno Ogweno, PhD. Associate Professor, Horticulture | ||
Prof. Samuel P. Nyalala, PhD. Associate Professor, Horticulture | Horticultural Crop Protection, Floriculture, Greenhouse Management. | Biocontrol, biopesticides, sustainable pest and disease management, IPM, plant-pest interactions, biofumigation, biostimulants, nutrient and water use efficiency in floricultural crops, greenhouse growing media and hydroponics, postharvest loss reduction. |
Post harvest technology, Floriculture, Landscape horticulture | Post harvest technology of horticulture crops, Seed potato production, organic farming, Herbs and spices, | |
Dr. Stephen Githengu, PhD. Lecturer, Horticulture | ||
Dr. Bernard Karanja, PhD. Lecturer, Horticulture |