Mr. Cyrus Too serves as Greenhouse Manager at the Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub.  He is in charge of our screenhouse, headerhouse, containment and non-containment greenhouses, and assists with related laboratory matters. 

Cyrus holds a BSc in Horticulture from Egerton University and has a wealth of experience in greenhouse management and use from working in the Kenyan private sector.  This includes greenhouse production of plants and the related issues of climate control, crop protection, crop nutrition and greenhouse equipment maintenance.  He has worked in the floriculture industry as a propagation officer, production officer and a tissue culture production manager.  As a tissue culture production manager, he led training and production efforts including media preparation, initiation, multiplication, in vitro rooting and acclimatization of plants such as calla lilies, bananas, and roses. He also conducted virus screening and eradication using meristem tissue culture and the Direct Antibody Sandwich- Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (DAS-ELISA), and established a highly effective biological control strategy in controlling red spider mites using Pytoseiulus persimilis (a pest attacking mites) in rose production under the Research and Development department of Sian Roses.  

Cyrus is working to ensure that the BecA-ILRI Hub has a state-of-the-art greenhouse complex to serve the research and training needs of the region.