Considerable progress has been made in breeding improved cowpea varieties in the last five years. The major breeding objectives were to develop high yielding cowpea varieties for sole cropping as well as intercropping with acceptable seed types and resistance to major diseases, insect pests, nema...
Ortiz, R.
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Ekanayake, I.J.
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Mahalakshmi, V.
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Kamara, A.
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Menkir, A.
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Nigan, S.N.
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Singh, B.B.
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Saxena, N.P.
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[Development of drought resistant and water stress tolerant crops through traditional breeding]
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Development of drought resistant and water stress tolerant crops through traditional breeding
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) [L.] Walp.) is a major component of the traditional cropping systems in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America where it is widely grown in mixtures with other crops in various combinations. The productivity of cowpea in these mixtures is low, mainly due to low plan...
High population growth and consequent pressure for food is driving agriculture towards greater intensification in West Africa. However, due to inadequate use/availability of farm manure and fertilisers, there is a continuous decline in soil fertility and overall crop productivity. This trend must...
Singh, B.B.
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Larbi, Asamoah
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Tabo, Ramadjita
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Dixon, Alfred G.O.
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[Trends in development of crop varieties for improved crop-livestock systems in West Africa]
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Trends in development of crop varieties for improved crop-livestock systems in West Africa
In the moist savanna zone with a 180 to 190 day growing period, early season cowpea immediately followed by a late season cereal crop can maximize the benefit of the legume to the cereal. Traditional cereal crops for this system are millet and sorghum but new early maize varieties can also be use...
Carsky, R.J.
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Singh, B.B.
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Oyewole, B.
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[Contribution of early season cowpea to late season maize in the savanna zone of West Africa]
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Contribution of early season cowpea to late season maize in the savanna zone of West Africa
The cowpea breeding programmes are reviewed and achievements at two major centres of cowpea research, i.e. IITA (Nigeria) and IARI (India), are summarized. Earlyand extra early genotypes are always photoperiod-insensitive, medium maturity varieties could be sensitive or neutral today length, whil...
Sustainable resource management is the critical agricultural research and development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. The accumulated knowledge on soil management gathered over the last 10 years, combined with solid crop improvement and plant health research at farmers’ level, has brought us to ...
Sanginga, N.
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Dashiell, Kenton E.
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Diels, J.
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Lyasse, O.
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Carsky, R.J.
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Tarawali, S.
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Asafo-Adjei, B.
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Menkir, A.
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Schulz, S.
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Singh, B.B.
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Chikoye, D.
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Keatinge, D.
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Ortiz, R.
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[Sustainable resource management coupled to resilient germplasm to provide new intensive cerealgrainlegumelivestock systems in the dry savanna]
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Sustainable resource management coupled to resilient germplasm to provide new intensive cerealgrainlegumelivestock systems in the dry savanna