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Efforts in breeding cowpea for aphid resistance: a review

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. Section B, Soil and Plant Science, 2021
Cowpea is an important food and nutritional security grain legume crop in the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Its production is limited by biotic factors including pre-harvest insect pests such as aphids.
Maletsema Alina Mofokeng, Abe Shegro Gerrano   +1 more
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Assessing the genetic diversity of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] germplasm collections using phenotypic traits and SNP markers

BMC Genetics, 2020
Background Productivity of cowpea [ Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp ] in sub-Sahara Africa is curtailed by a lack of farmer-preferred and improved cultivars and modern production technologies.
N. Nkhoma, H. Shimelis, M. Laing, A. Shayanowako, I. Mathew   +4 more
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Maize-cowpea intercropping as an ecological intensification option for low input systems in sub-humid Zimbabwe: Productivity, biological N2-fixation and grain mineral content

, 2021
Poor soil fertility and erratic rainfall constrain crop production in rain-fed smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Integration of drought tolerant and N2-fixing crops into maize-based cropping systems is a risk-averse strategy that also ...
Talent Namatsheve, Talent Namatsheve, R. Chikowo, R. Chikowo, M. Corbeels, M. Corbeels, C. Mouquet-Rivier, C. Icard-Vernière, R. Cardinael, R. Cardinael   +9 more
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More environmental resources consumption in low-input intercropped maize-cowpea leads to the suppression of weed growth [PDF]

Journal of Crop Protection
The current research was conducted to assess weed growth suppression in intercropped maize and cowpea related to the utilization of some environmental resources, including solar radiation, soil moisture, and space.
Kamyar Kazemi, Hamdollah Eskandari, Seyed Nader Mosavian   +2 more
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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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Expression of Bottom Component RNA of Cowpea Mosaic Virus in Cowpea Protoplasts [PDF]

Journal of Virology, 1980
Upon inoculation of cowpea protoplasts with the bottom component of cowpea mosaic virus, at least six virus-induced proteins (with sizes of 170, 110, 87, 84, 60, and 32 kilodaltons) are synthesized, but not the capsid proteins (37 and 23 kilodaltons). These bottom-component-induced proteins were studied with respect to their genetic origin
Rezelman, G., Goldbach, R.W., van Kammen, A.   +2 more
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Infrared heating under optimized conditions enhanced the pasting and swelling behaviour of cowpea starch.

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2021
Native starches are not suitable for industrial use and must be modified for improved functionality. In this study, the effect of moisture preconditioning and infrared heating time on physicochemical properties of cowpea starch was investigated using a ...
S. Oyeyinka, A. Oyedeji, O. Ogundele, E. Kayitesi, O. Adebo, P. Njobeh   +5 more
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Genetic, textual, and archaeological evidence of the historical global spread of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp)

bioRxiv, 2020
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.) was originally domesticated in sub-Saharan Africa but is now cultivated on every continent except Antarctica.
Ira A. Herniter, M. Muñoz‐Amatriaín, T. Close   +2 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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Cowpea

, 2015
Series ISSN: 2363-8478 ; Cowpea, Vigna unguiculata, is an important grain legume adapted to the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where it contributes to the nutrition, health, and income of rural and suburban inhabitants. It is indigenous to SSA with both cultivated and wild relatives distributed across the whole subregion.
Boukar, O., Fatokun, C.A., Roberts, P.A., Abberton, Michael T., Huynh, B.L., Close, T.J., Kyei-Boahen, S., Higgins, T.J.V., Ehlers, J.D.   +8 more
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