Effects of Maturity Stage, Desiccation and Storage Period on Seed Quality of Cleome (Cleome gynandra L.)
Abstract Cleome gynandra (L.) is a weed that grows throughout the tropics and sub-tropics. In Kenya it is gradually being domesticated and grown as a vegetable that is used in many culinary systems for its remarkable nutritional and medicinal properties. However, the seed planted by farmers has a germination that is erratic and occurring over…