abstract- declining land productivity associated with decreasing soil organic carbon and nutrients is a significant issue in monoculture production. the field experiment with different rates of fertilizer systems (60 kg ha-1 n + 100 kg ha-1 p, 300 kg ha-1 bio-organic (organic fertilizer), 3 kg ha-1 bioumik (biofertilizer), 30 kg ha-1  n + 50 kg ha-1 p + 150 kg ha-1 bio-organic fertilizer and 30...

Legumes and pulses have high nutritive values and functional properties that exert positive effects on health and nutrition. This study developed a novel complementary baby food using germinated mung bean and cowpea as sources of extra nutrients supplemented to the infants (aging 6-12 months). The carbohydrate contents of mung bean and cowpea showed 64.3 and 64.0% reduction, respectively, durin...

A field study was carried out during the summer seasons of 2019 and 2020 at research farm Agriculture University, Kota, Rajasthan, to effect NP fertilization stress mitigating chemicals on productivity profitability cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) baby corn (Zea mays intercropping system. The experiment conducted in a split-split plot design with 5 systems [sole cowpea, sole corn, + (2: 1), (3: 1...

Inoculation with Azospirillum brasilense Cd of two leguminous species, soybean (Glycine max) and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), demonstrated that: (1) A. brasilense significantly increased proton efflux from their roots; (2) inoculation reduced plant membrane potential (in soybean), (3) inoculation changed the phospholipid quantity in plant membranes of calli (in cowpea), and (4) a low molecular w...

The strain BR 3351T (Bradyrhizobium manausense) was obtained from nodules of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) growing in soil collected from Amazon rainforest. Furthermore, it was observed that the strain has high capacity to fix nitrogen symbiotically in symbioses with cowpea. We report here the draft genome sequence of strain BR 3351T. The information presented will be important for compara...

* Corresponding author A protease inhibitor gene has been isolated from native cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) cv. 130 from λ-ZAP II genomic library. The nucleotide sequence of this genomic clone shared 86% homology with a cowpea trypsin inhibitor f IV mRNA, and 81% with BowmanBirk protease inhibitor genes of soybean. The isolated gene had TATA and CAT signals in the 5' upstream region. The longe...

HIGHLIGHTS Saline stress did not affect the initial growth of cowpea crop. The use mulch provides better morphological results in Vegetal mulches as soil protection (sugarcane bagasse and bamboo straw) attenuated effect salts on gas exchange cowpea.

to study the effect of planting rates and harvest time on forage quality of maize in maize-cowpea intercropping, an experiment was conducted at the research farm of zabol university, during 2007 and 2008. the experiment was arranged in a 7×2 factorial one in complete randomized block design with 4 replications. the two factors consisted of seven planting ratios of maize and cowpea (100:100, 100...

The glycopeptide elicitor from a pea pathogen, ll(),cosphaereaa pinodes, induced rapid alkalinization and increases in Ievels of Na' ftnd K' ions in the extracellu]ar solution upon contact with pea and cowpea tissues. The presence of monensin, nigericin, lidocaine, quinidine or phenytoin together with the elicitor markedly inhibited these changes, whereas the presence of valinomycin, gramicidin...

Griffonia simplicifolia 11, an N-acetylglucosamine-specific legume lectin, has insecticidal activity when fed to the cowpea weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus (F.). A cDNA clone encoding G. simplicifolia II was isolated from a leaf cDNA library, sequenced, and expressed in a bacterial expression system. The recombinant protein exhibited Kacetylglucosamine-binding and insecticidal activity against...