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Agriculture & Food Security, 2017 Background The success of crop varieties introduction is tightly linked to the uses, biophysical conditions, the cropping systems in which the crop is integrated and farmers’ and consumers’ preferences.
Mathieu Anatole Tele Ayenan +3 more
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Pigeonpea Yield and Water Use Efficiency: A Savior under Climate Change-Induced Water Stress
Agronomy, 2020 Frequent droughts have threatened the crop yields and livelihoods of many smallholder farmers in South Africa. Pigeonpea can be grown by farmers to mitigate the impacts of droughts caused by climate change.
Misheck Musokwa, Paramu Mafongoya
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Genetic mapping and legume synteny of aphid resistance in African cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) grown in California. [PDF]
, 2015 The cowpea aphid Aphis craccivora Koch (CPA) is a destructive insect pest of cowpea, a staple legume crop in Sub-Saharan Africa and other semiarid warm tropics and subtropics.
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Phenotyping Chickpeas and Pigeonpeas for Adaptation to Drought [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2012 The chickpea and pigeonpea are protein-rich grain legumes used for human consumption in many countries. Grain yield of these crops is low to moderate in the semi-arid tropics with large variation due to high GxE interaction. In the Indian subcontinent chickpea is grown in the post-rainy winter season on receding soil moisture, and in other countries ...
Upadhyaya, H.D. +10 more
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The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2018 The experiment was conducted at students’ research farm, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana during 2015 and 2016 to study the effect of planting pattern and levels of nutrient applied to intercrops on growth, yield and nutrient uptake in pigeonpea
FATEHJEET SINGH SEKHON +2 more
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The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2021 To assess the influence of conservation agriculture (CA) practices on productivity and sustainability of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) - based cropping systems, the present field experiment was conducted for five consecutive years (2011-12 to 2015-16) at
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Risk analysis of maize-legume crop combinations with smallholder farmers varying in resource endowment in central Malawi [PDF]
, 2010 Using farmer resource typologies, adaptability analysis and an on-farm mother and baby trial approach, we evaluated the production risks of alternative maize-legume crop combinations for smallholder farmers in Chisepo, central Malawi between 1998 and ...
Giller, K.E. +3 more
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Bio-Protocol, 2016 Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.) is an important legume crop of rainfed agriculture. High levels of protein in pigeonpea make it a valuable protein source for developing countries. Phytophthora blight caused by Phytophthora cajani (P.
Mamta Sharma, Raju Ghosh
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Utilization and farmers’ knowledge on pigeonpea diversity in Benin, West Africa
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2017 Background Understanding factors driving farmers’ uses of crop genetic resources is a key component not only to design appropriate conservation strategies but also to promote sustainable production.
Mathieu Anatole Tele Ayenan +3 more
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New microsatellite markers for pigeonpea (
BMC Research Notes, 2009 Background Pigeonpea is a nutritious tropical legume with several desirable characteristics but has been relatively neglected in terms of research. More efficient improvement can be achieved in this crop through molecular breeding but adequate molecular ...
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