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Interspecific hybridization between Cajanus cajan and Cajanus cajanifolius [PDF]
Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, 2007 Interspecific hybridization between five Canajus cajan genotypes viz., ICPL 87, CORG 9302, CORG 5, TAT 93-47 and AS 46 and the wild species C. cajanifolius was attempted. Successful pod set was observed in direct crosses involvingC. cajan as ovule parent
Venkatesan Thiruvengadam +1 more
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Genetic patterns of domestication in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) and wild Cajanus relatives. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) is an annual or short-lived perennial food legume of acute regional importance, providing significant protein to the human diet in less developed regions of Asia and Africa.
Mulualem T Kassa +8 more
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Characterization of cover crops by NMR spectroscopy: impacts on soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus under tillage regimes [PDF]
Revista Ciência Agronômica, 2014 The objective of this study was to investigate the chemical composition of cover crops by solid-state CPMAS 13C NMR spectroscopy and its effects on carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in a Typic Acrustox.
Arminda Moreira de Carvalho +4 more
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Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2017 Pigeonpea is susceptible to pod borer damage with resistance lacking in its primary gene pool. Many Cajanus species harbor high levels of resistance. Host plant resistance can play an important role in minimizing the extent of losses due to insects and ...
Sandhya Srikanth +4 more
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Cytological investigation on pre and post fertilization barriers in interspecific cross of pigeonpea
Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2022 The research deals with cytological investigation on pre and post-fertilization barriers, pollen fertility assessment and in vitro pollen germination in Cajanus cajan (CO 8) and C. cajanifolius.
P. Ravali1, R. Kalaiyarasi1*, A. Thanga Hemavathy2 and M. Sudha3
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Cajanus cajan: a promissory high-nitrogen fixing cover crop for Uruguay
Frontiers in Agronomy, 2023 Cover crops can increase agricultural sustainability by protecting soil from erosion, increasing biodiversity, and symbiotically incorporating fixed nitrogen (N) into the soil. Nowadays, however, in Uruguay mostly grasses are planted in autumn to protect
Verónica Berriel, Carlos H. Perdomo
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Evaluation and demonstration of leguminous shrubs hedgerows intercropping with maize crop
International Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation and Technology, 2021 Smallholder farmers influenced from the challenges of production constraints to afford farm family with surplus food. To improve this problem the present study was designed to evaluate legume shrubs hedgerow intercropping with maize. In the present study,
B Lemage, M Tsegaye, Y Anmaw
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Two distinct emaraviruses, Pigeonpea sterility mosaic virus-I (PPSMV-I) and Pigeonpea sterility mosaic virus-II (PPSMV-II) were found to be associated with sterility mosaic disease (SMD) of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.].
B. R. Sayiprathap +10 more
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Biology, 2022 Pod borer (Helicoverpa armigera) causes the highest yield losses in pigeonpea, followed by pod fly (Melanagromyza obtusa). High levels of resistance to pod borer are not available in the cultivated genepool.
Shivali Sharma +6 more
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Heliyon, 2021 Fallowing is considered an important management strategy for the restoration of soil productivity. Therefore, a three-year fallow of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), mexican sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia) and elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) was ...
Aruna Olasekan Adekiya +8 more
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