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Prof. Leonard Samita Wamocho

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Department of Agriculture and Land use Management
School of Agriculture, veterinary Scinces and Technology.
P.O. Box 190-50100
Kakamega, KENYA
Office no. ABA 205
Kakamega-Webuye Road
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 ResearcherID AFQ-4896-2022.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2229-83844
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Prof. Leonard Samita Wamocho.

Professor Leonard Samita Wamocho holds a Doctorate Degree in Agriculture with specialization in horticulture from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. He has a Master’s in Agriculture/horticulture from Clemson University in South Carolina USA  and a Bachelor’s degree in horticulture from University of Florida at Gaines ville USA. He also holds a postgraduate diploma in environmental studies and a Diploma in horticulture from Egerton collage in 1972.

His area of specialization is crop nutrition using Fungal organisms to boost nutrients from poor soils to enhance crop productivity. Prof Wamocho worked with national horticulture station as a research assistant in horticulture in charge of developing beans varieties between 1973 and 1976 and worked as a Senior Technician in the Department of Crop Science to support horticultural programs at Egerton collage.He pioneered the development of horticultural programmes in  the department of horticulture at Egerton university and Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology where he served as the head of the department.

He served as a Director of Academic programmes during the establishment of Meru University of Science and Technology. Prof Wamocho was the Founding Dean,School of Agriculture ,Veterinary Sciences and Technology at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology.

 

Some of his key published works include: -

  1. Alice Nakhumicha Muriithi,Wamocho Ls, Njoroge Jbm, John Bosco Mukundi. Distribution, production and quality characteristics of tuberose cut flower in Kenya DISTRIBUTION, PRODUCTION AND QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF TUBEROSE (Polianthes tuberosa L.) CUT FLOWER IN KENYA. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341114531.
  2. Daniel Otanga,Jairus Odawa, Leonard Wamocho.The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Computing.1, January 2016. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research.
  3. Kousaku Kuwada, Leonard Samita Wamocho, Masaru Utamura, Itaru Matsushita, akaaki Ishii . Effect of Red and Green Algal Extracts on Hyphal Growth of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, and on Mycorrhizal Development and Growth of Papaya and Passionfruit. September 2006. Agronomy JournalDOI: https://doi.org/10.2134/agronj2005.0354.
  4. Wanyama D. O., S. Wamocho, K. Ngamau and R.N. Ssonkko. 2006. Effect of Gibberrelic Acid on growth and fruit yield of green-house grown Cape Gooseberry. African Crop Science Journal. vol. 14. No. 4, pp. 319-323, 2006. ISSN 1021-9730/2006. only published in the 2008 issue.
  5. Shiomi S., Wamocho L. S. and Agong S. G. 1996. Ripening characteristics of purple passion fruit on and off the vine. Postharvest Biology and Technology Journal 7: 161170. (95)000232. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0925-5214(95)00023-2
  6. . Shiomi S., Kubo Y., Wamocho L. S., Koaze H., Nakamura R. and Inaba A. 1996. Postharvest ripening and ethylene biosynthesis in purple passion fruit. Post-harvest Biology and Technology Journal 8: 199-207.
  7. . Wamocho L. S., 2001. Deciduous fruit tree germplasm in Kenya. Acta Horticulture 565. ISHS Commission Tropical and Subtropical HorticultureWorking Group on Temperate Zone Fruits in the Tropics and Subtropics. 45-47https://www.ishs.org/ishs-article/565_5.
  8. Saha, H.M., J.G. Mureithi, F.K. Lenga and L.S. Wamocho. Varying legume plant density and staggering the planting of maize and mucuna to maximize the benefit of the maize-mucuna intercropping system. Submitted to Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems Journal. Accepted 2008.
  9. Ishii T., K. Kuwada, L. S. Wamocho, I. Matsushta and K. Kadoya. 1998. Effects of algal extracts applied to the soil on vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal development and growth of papaya seedlings and passion fruit cuttings. J. Japan. Soc. Hort. Sci. 67. (Suppl. 2) 230.
  10. Ingram D L., Wamocho L. S. and Dehgan B. 1984. Interactive effects of IBA with sulphuric acid, sodium hydroxide or wounding on rooting of Raphiolepis indica Lindl. stem cuttings. The Plant Propagator J. 30 (1) : 2-4.

 

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