Highlights•Underexploited wild legumes represent a large and diverse gene
pool.•Advanced biotechnologies can promote the discovery of useful variations.•Ecological …

Legumes rank third in world crop production, and abiotic stress is the major constraint to
crop productivity. Biotechnological applications including all “omics” have been the direct …

Legumes are important food crops worldwide, contributing to more than 33% of human
dietary protein. The production of crop legumes is frequently impacted by abiotic and biotic …

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.), 2 n= 22) is a tropical crop grown in arid and semiarid
regions that is tolerant to abiotic stresses such as heat and drought. However, in these …

Protein legumes are among the most important crops for sustainable agriculture and global
food security for decades to come. Unfortunately, they are subject to several abiotic stresses …

Yield stability of legume crops is constrained by a number of pest and diseases. Major
diseases are rusts, powdery and downy mildews, ascochyta blights, botrytis gray molds …

Abstract Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) is a warm-season legume crop which is
widely grown by resource-poor small and marginal farmers of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia …

Wild relatives of wheat have served as a pool of genetic variation for understanding salinity
tolerance mechanisms. Two separate experiments were performed to evaluate the natural …

Drought tolerance is governed by constitutive and acquired traits. Combining them has
relevance for sustaining crop productivity under drought. Mild levels of stress induce specific …

Abstract Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] is an important warm-season legume grown
primarily in the semi-arid tropics. The majority of cowpea is grown by subsistence farmers in …