Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) is an important legume crop with enormous nutritional, agronomic and economic value. constitutes a large portion of the daily diet among many people in Africa, Asia, Central America, Southern America. The United States was top 10 global producers cowpea until 1967, when grown primarily for soil management livestock feed. With projected increase minority pop...

Background: Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] is most widely grown pulse-cum-vegetable crop. It plays an important role in maintaining soil fertility. Besides, nitrogen which fixed the from atmosphere by crop specific Rhizobium found root nodules of this crop, phosphorus another element inter-alia enhances fixation capability In addition to biologically nitrogen, also requires through fertil...

Cowpea, Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp. is a widely planted nutritious grain legume [1]. It is cultivated in many West African countries including Nigeria. Cowpea is a source of dietary protein, vitamins and mineral salts. It has been consumed by human since the earliest practice of Agriculture in developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America [2]. The pulse beetle, Callosobruchus maculat...

Consensus genetic linkage maps provide a genomic framework for quantitative trait loci identification, map-based cloning, assessment of genetic diversity, association mapping, and applied breeding in marker-assisted selection schemes. Among "orphan crops" with limited genomic resources such as cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] (2n = 2x = 22), the use of transcript-derived SNPs in genetic ma...

Sixty six genotypes of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp) were investigated to understand the extent of genetic diversity through twelve quantitative traits. Mahalanobis’s D analysis established the presence of wide genetic diversity among these genotypes by the formation of 23 clusters. Cluster I had the maximum number of genotypes i.e 22 and cluster 23 had only one genotype. Intra cluster d...

The cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a widespread pest of many cultivated and wild plants in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. In 2013, this species was reported in Brazil, attacking various host crops in the midwestern and northeastern regions of the country and is now found countrywide. Aiming to understand the effects of different host plants on th...

Pollution has heavy impact on countries ' economies, through its crop production. This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of pollution by breakers gravel dust (city Sebha-Libya) germination and growth seedlings beans Phaseolus vulgaris Cowpea Vigna unguiculata. Where field poll found that number crushers in city reached 12 crusher scattered randomly around city, there are relatively at ...

Recently, there has been a growing interest in protein-rich foods and functional foods, as well plants characterized by high levels of drought resistance. Vigna unguiculata L. Walp. from the Fabaceae family, also known cowpea, was chosen subject present study. The antioxidant potentials 15 genotypes cultivated Bulgaria, Southern Europe, were determined. research focused on green mass used feed ...