… The name cowpea … cowpea around the world include “niebe,”“wake,” and “ewa” in much of
West Africa and “caupi” in Brazil. In the United States, other names used to describe cowpeas …

… Advances in research on cowpea striga and alectra. Variation in … cowpea: new source of
crop resistance. Further characterization of cowpea aphid-borne mosaic and blackeye cowpea …

… Cowpea is grown in no less than 45 countries across the globe on about 14.5 × 10 6 … of
total world cowpea followed by Burkina Faso with about 6 %. The bulk of cowpea production as …

Cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata ) is a legume consumed as a high‐quality plant protein source …
grains make cowpea an important nutritional food in the human diet. Cowpea has gained …

… Cowpea grains rich in protein are consumed in different forms in several parts of the tropics.
The average grain yield of cowpea in … Ex situ collection of over 15,000 accessions of cowpea …

… night) factors are limiting cowpea production in different parts of … using interspecific
hybridization between cowpea and other … to introduce foreign genes into cowpea. Currently, …

… and breeding of cowpea is presented in this article. Cowpea breeding programmes have …
have contributed to the development of cowpea genomic resources. Recent progress in the …

… in cowpea cultivar and germplasm development by the Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research
… Cultivars ‘CRSP Niébé’ and ‘Lori Niébé’ which have seed and pod resistance to cowpea …

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ich also co mp rises the p ig eon-peaand so yb ean. W ith in P h aseo leae, th eg en e ra …

… 40000 ha of cowpea is grown, with an estimated 45000 t annual production of dry cowpea
seed and a large amount of frozen green cowpeas. India is the largest cowpea producer in …