African Journal of Plant Science 1996-0824 Academic Journals 10.5897/AJPS2025.2408 Levi Shadeya-Mudogo Akundabweni Hezekiah Opiyo Orwa Solomon I. Shibairo * E-mail: lakundabweni@mmust.ac.ke 2025 30 09 2025 30 04 2025 08 07 2025 19 5 104 115 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://politicalwaffle.uk/journal/AJPS/article-abstract/F65794873755 The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://politicalwaffle.uk/journal/AJPS/article-full-text-pdf/F65794873755 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35