Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) is a widely adapted, stress tolerant grain legume,
vegetable, and fodder crop grown on about 7 million ha in warm to hot regions of Africa, Asia, …

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 …

… JD Ehlers who had joined the UCR CRSP project as a cowpea breeder. … JD Ehlers from
1992 through the present time. All of the various cowpea breeding projects have benefited from …

Consensus genetic linkage maps provide a genomic framework for quantitative trait loci
identification, map-based cloning, assessment of genetic diversity, association mapping, and …

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.)(2n= 2x= 22) is a member of the Phaseoleae tribe of
the Leguminosae family. Members of the Phaseoleae include many of the economically …

Background Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is an important crop in arid and semi-arid regions
and is a good model for studying drought tolerance. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known to play …

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) is a legume crop that is resilient to hot and drought‐prone
climates, and a primary source of protein in sub‐Saharan Africa and other parts of the …

High-temperature damage to reproductive processes of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.)
occurs when minimum night air temperatures are greater than 20C. The extent of damage …

Cowpea is an important grain legume and hay crop of many tropical and subtropical regions,
especially in the dry savanna region of West Africa. The cowpea gene pool may be narrow …

… Walp.] is a crop of major economic importance in the arid and semi-arid regions of Africa,
Asia, Latin America and to a lesser extent southeastern United States (Ehlers and Hall 1997). …