Biology of flower-infecting fungi

HK Ngugi, H Scherm - Annu. Rev. Phytopathol., 2006 - annualreviews.org
The ability to infect host flowers offers important ecological benefits to plant-parasitic fungi;
not surprisingly, therefore, numerous fungal species from a wide range of taxonomic groups …

Multiple treatment meta-analysis of products evaluated for control of fire blight in the eastern United States

HK Ngugi, BL Lehman, LV Madden - Phytopathology, 2011 - Am Phytopath Society
The aim of this analysis was to estimate the effect sizes and consistency of products evaluated
for fire blight control in the eastern United States over the last decade. Because only 3% …

Prevalence and factors associated with aflatoxin contamination of peanuts from Western Kenya

CK Mutegi, HK Ngugi, SL Hendriks… - International journal of food …, 2009 - Elsevier
Aflatoxin contamination of peanuts poses a risk to human health and has been identified as
a major constraint to trade in eastern Africa. A survey was carried out to obtain baseline data …

Hyperspectral image analysis for water stress detection of apple trees

Y Kim, DM Glenn, J Park, HK Ngugi… - … and Electronics in …, 2011 - Elsevier
Plant stress significantly reduces plant productivity. Automated on-the-go mapping of plant
stress would allow for a timely intervention and mitigation of the problem before critical …

Relationship between cluster compactness and bunch rot in Vignoles grapes

B Hed, HK Ngugi, JW Travis - Plant disease, 2009 - Am Phytopath Society
The impact of cluster compactness and debris retention on harvest bunch rot of Vitis
interspecific hybrid ‘Vignoles’ was investigated between 2001 and 2005 near Lake Erie, in …

Prevalence, incidence, and severity of sorghum diseases in western Kenya

HK Ngugi, SB King, GO Abayo, YVR Reddy - Plant Disease, 2002 - Am Phytopath Society
HK Ngugi and SB King, International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (…
Ngugi, HK 1998. Epidemiology and management of sorghum anthracnose and leaf blight in …

FIBRILLIN4 Is Required for Plastoglobule Development and Stress Resistance in Apple and Arabidopsis

…, PJ Jensen, BL Lehman, HK Ngugi… - Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The fibrillins are a large family of chloroplast proteins that have been linked with stress
tolerance and disease resistance. FIBRILLIN4 (FIB4) is found associated with the photosystem II …

[HTML][HTML] Rootstock-regulated gene expression patterns associated with fire blight resistance in apple

…, N Altman, C Praul, SN Maximova, HK Ngugi… - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Desirable apple varieties are clonally propagated by grafting vegetative scions
onto rootstocks. Rootstocks influence many phenotypic traits of the scion, including …

Mimicry in plant-parasitic fungi

HK Ngugi, H Scherm - FEMS microbiology letters, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Mimicry is the close resemblance of one living organism (the mimic) to another (the model),
leading to misidentification by a third organism (the operator). Similar to other organism …

Factors associated with the incidence of Aspergillus section Flavi and aflatoxin contamination of peanuts in the Busia and Homa bay districts of western Kenya

CK Mutegi, HK Ngugi, SL Hendriks… - Plant pathology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to identify agronomic, ecological and sociocultural factors that could
be modified to reduce the risk of aflatoxin contamination of peanuts from western Kenya. …