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Ethnobotanical study of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) in Senegal

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) plays a key role in family farming systems in Senegal. It makes an essential contribution to economic, nutritional and food security.
Awa Sarr, Amy Bodian, Mame Codou Gueye, Badara Gueye, Ghislain Kanfany, Cyril Diatta, Lardia Ali Bougma, Elisabeth A. M. C. Diop, Ndiaga Cissé, Diaga Diouf, Christian Leclerc   +10 more
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Metagenomic-Based Screening and Molecular Characterization of Cowpea-Infecting Viruses in Burkina Faso.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Cowpea, (Vigna unguiculata L. (Walp)) is an annual tropical grain legume. Often referred to as "poor man's meat", cowpea is one of the most important subsistence legumes cultivated in West Africa due to the high protein content of its seeds.
Essowè Palanga, Denis Filloux, Darren P Martin, Emmanuel Fernandez, Daniel Gargani, Romain Ferdinand, Jean Zabré, Zakaria Bouda, James Bouma Neya, Mahamadou Sawadogo, Oumar Traore, Michel Peterschmitt, Philippe Roumagnac   +12 more
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Development of a core set of single nucleotide polymorphism markers for genetic diversity analysis and cultivar fingerprinting in cowpea

Legume Science, 2021
Cowpea is an important legume crop worldwide. However, the diversity and relationship of current accessions remain unclear due to a lack of robust genetic information.
Xinyi Wu, Baogen Wang, Suqi Wu, Sujuan Li, Yan Zhang, Ying Wang, Yanwei Li, Jian Wang, Xiaohua Wu, Zhongfu Lu, Guojing Li   +10 more
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Automatic classification of cowpea leaves using deep convolutional neural network

Smart Agricultural Technology, 2023
This paper uses a binary classification to discriminate cowpea leaves from other/weed leaves. Cowpea is one of the nutritional crops, but research on cowpea is negligible worldwide.
Vijaya Choudhary, Paramita Guha, Giovanni Pau, Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj, Sunita Mishra   +4 more
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Market participation, household food security, and income: The case of cowpea producers in northern Nigeria

Food and Energy Security, 2020
This article evaluates the impact of cowpea market participation on household food security and income in northern Nigeria. Using household survey data from a representative sample of over 1,500 farm households and applying a combination of instrumental ...
Julius Manda, Arega D. Alene, Adane Hirpa Tufa, Shiferaw Feleke, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Lucky O. Omoigui, Victor Manyong   +6 more
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Assessment of the response of fifteen cowpea [Vigna unguiculata L. (Walp.)] genotypes to infestation by Callosobruchus maculatus Fab. (Coloeptera: Bruchidae)

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2022
Storage of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata L. (Walp)] is constrained by the cowpea seed bruchid pest, Callosobruchus maculatus. However, in Ghana, little is known of the responses of cowpea genotypes to infestation by C. maculatus.
Jackson Nyarko, Aaron T. Asare, Benjamin A. Mensah, Francis Adjei   +3 more
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Different dissipation potential and dietary risk assessment of tristyrylphenol ethoxylates in cowpea ecosystem in China

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
Tristyrylphenol ethoxylates (TSPEOn) are widely used as inert ingredients in pesticide formulations in the world. However, the information on the dissipation behavior of different homologs TSPEOn in agro-products is lacking.
Minjie Li, Qi Wang, Xiaohui Li, Ning Yue, Maojun Jin, Lufei Zheng, Jing Wang, Fen Jin   +7 more
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Root and shoot studies of summer cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and baby corn (Zea mays) under intercropping system with different levels of fertility and stress-mitigating chemicals

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
An experiment was conducted during summer seasons of 2019 and 2020 at College of Agriculture (Agriculture University, Kota), Ummedganj, Rajasthan, to study the root and shoot of summer cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] and baby corn (Zea mays L ...
ANJU BIJARNIA, J P TETARWAL, ARJUN LAL BIJARNIA   +2 more
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Farmers and Agricultural Extension Officers Perception of Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke Parasitism on Cowpea in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Advances in Agriculture, 2018
Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] is an important food security crop in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, cowpea production in some parts of this region is constrained by Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke infestation resulting in yield losses.
Peter Haruna, Aaron T. Asare, Elvis Asare-Bediako, Francis Kusi   +3 more
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Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp).

PLoS ONE, 2016
The genetic diversity of cowpea was analyzed, and the population structure was estimated in a diverse set of 768 cultivated cowpea genotypes from the USDA GRIN cowpea collection, originally collected from 56 countries.
Haizheng Xiong, Ainong Shi, Beiquan Mou, Jun Qin, Dennis Motes, Weiguo Lu, Jianbing Ma, Yuejin Weng, Wei Yang, Dianxing Wu   +9 more
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