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Impacts of climate change on the yields of leguminous crops in the Guinea Savanna agroecological zone of Ghana

open access: yesRegional Sustainability, 2023
The impacts of climate change on crop yields are receiving renewed interest, with focus on cereals and staple crops at the regional and national scales.
Enoch Yeleliere   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neurolathyrism in Sub‐Saharan Africa—Assessing the Neurotoxic Risks of Lathyrus sativus Amid Drought and Food Security Challenges

open access: yesFood Safety and Health, EarlyView.
Representation of grass pea consumption in drought‐stricken sub‐Saharan Africa sustains nutrition, but excess β‐ODAP exposure due to multiple reasons triggers neurolathyrism, a progressive neurotoxic disorder. ABSTRACT Neurolathyrism is a progressive motor neuron disease due to the consumption of Lathyrus sativus (grass pea) over long periods.
Biruk Demisse Ayalew   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cowpeas - A New Forage Crop for South Dakota [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In the northern Great Plains, cool-season pastures decline in productivity during summer. This reduces available forage supplies. Solutions to forage shortages during the summer traditionally have included the use of perennial and annual warm-season ...
Twidwell, Edward K.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Effects of Intercropping Cowpeas with Maize and Phosphorous Levels on Growth and Yields of Cowpeas in Meru County, Kenya

open access: yes, 2020
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) is a legume that is grown for various uses Humans consume it as grain or leaf vegetable and as fodder by livestock. It has high nutritive value and high palatability.
Mugambi, Mwaoria   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Annual and Seasonal Rainfall Variability in Mozambique During the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesInternational Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
This paper presents the first annually and seasonally resolved reconstructions of nineteenth‐century rainfall variability for Mozambique derived from the analysis of extensive documentary evidence. It reveals spatially heterogeneous rainfall patterns with recurrent multi‐year droughts, episodic extreme wet events, and a strong coherence between ...
David J. Nash   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interference between Cowpea Mosaic Virus and Cowpea Severe Mosaic Virus in a Cowpea Host Immune to Cowpea Mosaic Virus

open access: yesJournal of General Virology, 1987
Summary Infection of a cowpea line by cowpea severe mosaic virus (CPSMV) was inhibited by cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) even though the plants were immune to CPMV. The inhibition was dose-dependent and was complete if CPMV was added to the inoculum in a 50-fold excess over CPSMV.
P. Sterk, C. P. De Jager
openaire   +1 more source

Morphological and SSR marker characterization of wild and cultivated cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Sciences (Belgrade), 2019
Three hundred and ninety accessions comprising 260 cultivated and 130 wild cowpea accessions were evaluated phenotypically using 27 cowpea descriptors.
Ogunkanmi Adebayo L.   +4 more
doaj  

An Improved Transformation System for Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) via Sonication and a Kanamycin-Geneticin Selection Regime

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2019
An improved cowpea transformation method utilizing Agrobacterium-mediated gene delivery to explants derived from the cotyledonary nodes of imbibed cowpea seed is described.
Bosibori Bett   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dissipation Behavior and Dietary Risk Assessment of Thiamethoxam, Pyraclostrobin, and Their Metabolites in Home-Style Pickled Cowpea

open access: yesFoods, 2023
In this study, the fate of two pesticides commonly used on cowpeas, thiamethoxam and pyraclostrobin, during the preparation of home-made pickled cowpeas was investigated using an improved QuEChERS method combined with UHPLC-MS/MS.
Xumi Wang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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