About
Professional SummaryDr. Kahiu Ngugi is currently working as Associate Professor at University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has completed his Ph.D. in Plant Sciences from same University. He is member of Kenya Plant Breeding Society, and former member of Cambridge Philosophical Society. He has taught for 9 years at the University of Nairobi. He teaches the following courses at the University, Molecular Genetics, Plant Breeding and Biotechnology. He is currently supervising 3 PhD and 8 MSc research projects. Dr Ngugi has over 22 peer reviewed publications and has authored 2 books and co-authored one.
Education
Academic Background-
Ph.D. University of Cambridge, UK Breeding Biology and Molecular Genetics | Completed: 1992
Publications (41)
Selected Scholarly Contributions
Combining ability for earliness and yield among South Sudanese F1 sorghum genotypes.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2019
Evaluation of resistance of cassava half-sib progenies to cassava mosaic disease and their agronomic performances in Western Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2018
Agronomic performance of Kenyan orange fleshed sweet potato varieties.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2018
The inheritance of yield components and beta carotene content in sweet potato.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2018
A diagnostic appraisal of sorghum farming in Striga endemic areas of Eritrea.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2017
Genotypic variation for low Striga germination stimulation in sorghum “Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench” landraces from Eritrea.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2016
The diversity of green bean biochemical compounds in Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner) as evaluated by near infrared spectroscopy.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2016
Variation of mineral micronutrient elements in robusta coffee (Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner) as measured by energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2016
Sensory and organoleptic cup attributes of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner).
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2016
Combating Striga weed in sorghum by transferring resistance quantitative trait loci through molecular marker assisted introgression.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2015
Evaluation of relative competitive ability and fitness of Sorghum bicolor×Sorghum halepense and Sorghum bicolor×Sorghum sudanense F1 hybrids.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2015
The population structure of wild sorghum species in agro-ecological zones of Western Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2015
Real time PCR mediated determination of the spontaneous occurrence of Sorghum bicolor alleles in wild sorghum populations.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2015
Evaluation of multiplex PCR in detection of crop alleles and differential hybridization among weedy sorghum populations.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2014
Marker-assisted introgression improves Striga resistance in an eritrean farmer-preferred sorghum variety.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2014
Assessing genetic variability in chickpea genotypes grown under optimum and high field temperature environments in Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2013
Introgressing Striga resistance from a mapped donor source into a Rwandan adapted sorghum variety.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2013
Combining, earliness, short anthesis to silking interval and yield based selection indices under intermittent water stress to select for drought tolerant maize.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2013
Morphological and physiological measurement of the stay-green trait in transgenic and non-transgenic cassava under green-house water stress conditions.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2013
Anthesis to silking interval usefulness in developing drought tolerant maize.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2013
Assessment of relationships in Kenyan sorghum land-races by simple sequence repeat molecular markers.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2013
Improving drought tolerance in Sorghum bicolor L. Moench: Marker-assisted transfer of the stay-green Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) from a characterized donor source into a local farmer variety.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2013
Genetic divergence in Jatropha curcas L.: A potential bio-fuel crop in Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2013
The analysis of the molecular diversity of Kenya Sorghum germ-plasm using mcrosatellites.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2012
Adaptation of Jatropha curcas L. in the agro-ecological environments of Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2012
Farmers participatory selection for early bulking cassava genotypes in semi-arid Eastern Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2011
Combining the yield ability and secondary traits of selected cassava genotypes in the semi-arid areas of Eastern Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2010
Introgression of the stay-green trait into a Kenyan farmer preferred sorghum variety.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2010
Phenotypic diversity in sorghum land races from Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2010
Evaluation of smut inoculation techniques in sugarcane seedlings.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2008
Identification of microsatellite, AFLP and SCAR markers of a locus carrying a major gene for resistance to coffee berry disease caused by Colletotrichum kahawae in Coffea arabica L.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2008
Infectivity, pseudorecombination and mutagenesis of Kenyan cassava mosaic begomoviruses.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2007
Genetic diversity and phylogeography of cassava mosaic viruses in Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
2006
Associations between grain yield and carbon isotope discrimination in cowpea.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
1996
Genotype × environment interaction in carbon isotope discrimination and seed yield in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.).
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
1993
Carbon isotope discrimination as a means of evaluating drought resistance in barley, rice and cowpeas.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
1990
Breeding for resistance against some of the major insects of cowpea and pigeon pea.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
1985
Principal diseases of pigeon pea, chickpea and green gram in the semi-arid area of Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
1984
Performance of early maturing determinate chickpea varieties in dry areas of Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
1984
Development of drought resistant high yielding pigeon pea lines.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
1984
Improvement of cowpea varieties for dry areas in Kenya.
Eliud Kahiu Ngugi
1984