Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) is a highly nutritious legume with good drought tolerance attributes and therefore suitable candidate for food nutritional security especially in prone areas. This study was conducted to determine the phytochemical composition of seventeen landraces that were collected from Vihiga, Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia, Kisumu Counties Kenya. Prior characterization, fie...

Bambara groundnut is a starchy grain that could serve as starch source for the industry. In native form, starches are generally unsuitable most industrial applications and hence modified. Physical modification methods including annealing preferred because they environmentally friendly. Previous studies on of focused single-temperature treatment. This study investigated physicochemical propertie...

Groundnut is susceptible to a range of diseases and pests owing to its narrow genetic base. Closely related wild relatives of groundnut are diploid, and crossability between diploid wild relatives and tetraploid cultivated groundnut is difficult. Amphidiploid and autotetraploid groundnuts, which are tetraploids (also called synthetic groundnut), were developed at ICRISAT. Crossability between c...

This article provides a brief overview of Daba software package created in the course of building corpora for Manding languages. Key software features are motivated by the tasks and problems characteristic of many African languages. The corpus-building model proposed here was initially developed for Bambara Reference Corpus which is available online and is freely accessible. The morphological a...

The study examined the chemical and functional properties of composite flours based on maize, Bambara groundnut, mango for possible use as complementary food. Flours were prepared from yellow maize variety, groundnut pulp blended in ratios 100/0/0, 90/5/5, 85/10/5, 75/20/5, 70/25/5 65/30/5 labelled samples A, B, C, D, E F respectively.
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Abstract Bambara groundnut is one of the crops with inadequate molecular research to show its full potentials. Previous studies showed morphological diversity information confirm genetic variations. In quest reveal potentials, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) selected accessions was extracted through leaf samples at 3 weeks old, using Dellaporta Miniprep for Plant DNA Isolation procedure. The high q...

Rainfed environments are characterised by unpredictable and highly variable seasonal rainfall and hence highly variable yields. Water use efficiency (WUE, yield per unit of water use) is commonly used for agricultural production with limited water resources. Expertise working towards the water resources need to address the multitudinous aspects in which cropping systems and amounts, timing and ...

Hexane, acetone, and methanol extracts from Gnidia kaussiana Meisn (Thymeleaceae), each at two dosages (0.2 and 1 ml/50 g grains corresponding, respectively to 1 and 5g/kg), and neem seed oil (NSO), used as standard insecticide were evaluated for repellence, toxicity to Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) adults, F1 progeny inhibition, persistence and as grain protectant d...

In Africa a variety of indigenous cereals, legumes and tubers are cultivated as starchy food crops. These include sorghum, millet species including pearl millet, finger millet, teff and white and black fonio, and African rice as cereals; cowpea, Bambara groundnut, African yambean and West African locust bean as legumes; and Zulu round potato and the Livingstone potato as tubers. Many of these p...