Crops' incompatibility makes conventional breeding approaches untenable in transferring available insect resistance From wild Vigna sp. into cowpea. The alternative recourse is to isolate and transfer alien resistance genes using genetic transformation. This has the added advantage of using usefu...
Machuka, J.
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[Potential role of transgenic approaches in the control of cowpea insect pests]
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Potential role of transgenic approaches in the control of cowpea insect pests
Over the last three decades, sporadic efforts have been made to develop regeneration and transformation systems in cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata L. Walp). This paper reviews the progress made to date, including highlights of culture media and explants used for regeneration and chimeric gene construc...
Artificial feeding assays were used to study the effect of purified galactose-specific lectins from African yam beans (Sphenostylis stenocarpa) on development of larvae of the cowpea weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) and the legume pod-borer, Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Py...
Machuka, J.
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Okeola, O.
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Chrispeels, M.
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[The African yam bean seed lectin affects the development of the cowpea weevil but does not affect the development of larvae of the legume pod borer]
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The African yam bean seed lectin affects the development of the cowpea weevil but does not affect the development of larvae of the legume pod borer