A.H. Paterson (ed.), Genomics of the Saccharinae, Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models 11, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-5947-8_16, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract Sustainable production of sorghum, Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, depends on effective control of insect pests as they continue to compete with humans for the sorghum crop. Insect pests are a major constraint...

Introduction Farming systems influence composition and abundance of microbial communities. Methodology A study was conducted using morphotyping enumeration methods to determine the spore Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) in sweet potato producing regions eastern Uganda. Sampling done from fields with crop types (CTs) including legumes (groundnuts, common beans, cowpea, soybeans, green grams), ...

Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, one of the most important dryland cereal crops, is moderately tolerant soil salinity, a rapidly increasing agricultural problem due to inappropriate irrigation management and salt water intrusion into crop lands as result climate change. The mechanisms for sorghum’s tolerance high salinity have not been elucidated. This study tested whether sorghum plants adapt stre...

Dehydrins are a family of proteins (LEA [late-embryogenesis abundant] D11) commonly induced by environmental stresses associated with low temperature or dehydration and during seed maturation drying. Our previous genetic studies suggested an association of an approximately 35-kD protein (by immunological evidence a dehydrin) with chilling tolerance during emergence of seedlings of cowpea (Vigna...

The study was conducted to investigate the effect of nitrogen application on the yield contributing characteristics, biomass yield and nutritive values of cowpea forage. Five nitrogen levels viz: 0 (T0), 15 (T1), 20 (T2), 25 (T3) and 30 (T0) kg N/ha were applied in 20 plots in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The result showed that the application of nitrogen fertilizer had significant (P<...

Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp (cowpea) is a food crop with high nutritional value that is cultivated throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The main constraint on high productivity of cowpea is water deficit, caused by the long periods of drought that occur in these regions. The aim of the present study was to select elite cowpea genotypes with enhanced drought tolerance, by ap...

Quality Protein Maize is an improved variety of maize which contains higher amount of lysine and tryptophan. Cowpea is an indigenous legume widely consumed in Nigeria. Quality Protein Maize was malted by steeping, germinating, drying and milling while cowpea was dehulled, steamed, dried and milled. The resulting flours were blended to produce complementary food at ratios of 100:0; 70:30 (Qualit...

The formation/loss of characterized traits in a given cultivated species is strongly affected by long-term artificial selection. Cowpea (V. unguiculata L. Walp.) is an important legume crop for many residences in the tropics and subtropics of the world, being consumed as either a grain, fodder or vegetable crop depending on local cultivation and consumption habits. Cowpea is believed to have or...

ABSTRACT Striga gesnerioides is a root hemiparasite of wild and cultivated legumes, among which cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and Indigofera hirsuta are suitable hosts. In this study, we examined the genetic structure and host-parasite interaction of a strain of S. gesnerioides parasitizing I. hirsuta (SGFL) from central Florida (United States). Amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis was ...

An experiment entitled “Growth, yield and water use efficiency of sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] affected by drip irrigation nitrogen levels through fertigation” was carried out on clayey slightly alkaline soil during rabi season 2019-20 2020-21 at the Instructional Farm, Department Agronomy, College Agriculture, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh. The laid in split plot de...