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Genetic Engineering: A Powerful Tool for Crop Improvement by Bhattacharjee, Mamta, Meshram, Swapnil, Dayma, Jyotsna, Pandey, Neha, Naglaa A, Abdallah, Hamwieh, Aladdin, Mahmoud, Nourhan Fouad, Acharjee, Sumita

“…Although not all GM crops have been commercialized, a few like soybean, papaya, maize, cotton, common bean, sweet potato, cowpea, etc. are practising. Recently, genome-edited crops are also approved for commercialization. …”
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Management of maize-legume conservation agriculture systems rather than varietal choice fosters human nutrition in Malawi by Muoni, Tarirai, Mhlanga, Blessing, Öborn, Ingrid, Thierfelder, Christian

“…Each community had six demonstration plots with three main treatments: conventional ploughing (CP): sole maize grown on seasonally constructed ridges and furrows; no-tillage (NT): sole maize grown on retained ridges with minimum soil disturbance and residue retained; and Conservation agriculture (CA): maize intercropped either cowpea, pigeon pea or groundnut on retained ridges as in NT. …”
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A gender-responsive breeding approach to the intensification of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) production in the Maradi region of Niger by Lawali, S., Boureima, S., Idi, S.

“…Climatic variability and a decrease in soil fertility have had a detrimental effect on the productivity of the main rainfed crops in Niger (millet, sorghum, and cowpea) and led to a deterioration of the nutritional status and income of the country's farmers. …”
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Conservation of indigenous vegetables in the Philippines: A scoping study by Oraye, Claudette D., de Chavez, Hidelisa D., Aguilar, Catherine Hazel M., Makiling, Florisa C., Ladia, Villamor A. Jr., Enicola, Elmer E., Maghirang, Rodel G., Anunciado, Ma. Shiela, Monville-Oro, Emilita, Gonsalves, Julian, Hunter, Danny, Borelli, Teresa, Mendonce, Sharon

“…These species are: moringa (Moringa oleifera), birch flower (Broussonetia luzonica), gnetum (Gnetum gnemon), slender carpetweed (Glinus oppositifolius), bagbagkong (Telosma procumbens), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata), rice bean (Vigna umbellata), jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius) and amaranths (Amaranthus spp.).…”
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Genomic tools accelerating the selection and deployment of best-bet forage genebank collections to farmers: Feed and Forage Development Research by Muktar, Meki S., Negawo, Alemayehu T., Habte, Ermias, Teshome, Abel, Dejene, M., Mohammed, K., Feyissa, F., Bezabih, Melkamu, Jones, Christopher S.

“…By utilizing DNA markers, the research team identified core collections of forage species, including cowpea, lablab, Sesbania sesban, Rhodes grass, oats, Urochloa spp., buffel grass, and Napier grass. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Five African Traditional Multipurpose Crops Using a Food Systems Approach by Munialo, S., Madzorera, I., Lartey, A., Noor, R.A., Thiam, A., Covic, Namukolo M., Amos, L., Adelheid, O., Baye, K., Nikiema, L.O., Wafaie, F., Sibanda, L.M.

“…A review of five traditional crops—sorghum, amaranth, cassava, cowpea, and cashew nuts—assessed research, policy, and practice, aiming to enhance food systems. …”
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Measuring the potential impacts of improved food-feed crops: methods for ex ante assessment by Thornton, Philip K., Kristjanson, Patricia M., Thorne, Peter J.

“…In this paper, we outline methods that can be used in ex ante impact assessment, and illustrate some of these in relation to three recent studies on improved food-feed crops in different places: improving the quality of millet and sorghum stover in India, using dual-purpose cowpea in West Africa, and alternatives for utilizing maize stover in the mixed systems of East and Southern Africa. …”
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Improving fibre utilisation and protein supply in animals fed poor quality roughages: ILRI nutrition research and plans by Osuji, P.O., Fernández Rivera, S., Odenyo, A.A.

“…The effect of supplementing teff straw with lablab or cowpea in cattle on microbial protein supply was evaluated using urinary purine derivatives. …”
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Development of mixed forage and crop production systems for coastal semi-arid Kenya by Mureithi, J.G., Thorpe, W.R.

“…The main food crops are maize, cassava, and cowpea. Soils are developed on coastal sands and coral limestone. …”
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Combating viral mosaic disease of cassava in the Lake Zone of Tanzania by intercropping with legumes by Uzokwe, Veronica N.E., Mlay, D.P., Masunga, H.R., Kanju, E., Odeh, I. O., Onyeka, J.

“…Cassava varieties intercropped with cowpeas, green gram, and groundnuts and cassava monocrops with and without NPK fertilizer constituted the main plot and sub-plots, respectively. …”
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Effect of Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) host plants on lifehistory parameters of the parasitoid Apanteles taragamae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) by Dannou, E.A., Tamò, Manuele, Agboton, C., Huis, A. van, Dicke, M.

“…Maruca vitrata larvae were fed with flowers of four legumes, that is, Vigna unguiculata (cowpea), Sesbania rostrata, Lonchocarpus sericeus and Pterocarpus santalinoides, or an artificial diet both before and after parasitization. …”
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Forage seed production and trade as a pathway out of poverty in the smallholder sector: Lessons from the Zimbabwe Crop Livestock Integration for Food Security (ZimCLIFS) project by Chakoma, Irenie, Gwiriri, Lovemore C., Manyawu, Godfrey J., Dube, Sikhalazo, Shumba, M., Gora, A.

“…In 2013, Mucuna pruriens (mucuna), Lablab purpureus (lablab) and Vigna unguiculata (cowpea) seed produced was 2 250 kg, 120 kg and 4 450 kg, respectively, and by the third season, total yield increased by 163%. …”
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The potential of replacing conventional dairy supplements with forage legume-based diets in Zimbabwe’s smallholder dairy sector by Gwiriri, Lovemore C., Manyawu, Godfrey J., Mashanda, P.B., Chakoma, Irenie, Moyo, Siboniso, Chakoma, C., Sethaunyane, H., Imbayarwo-Chikosi, V.E., Dube, Sikhalazo, Maasdorp, B.V.

“…The effect of replacing commercial supplements with isoenergetic and isonitrogenous velvet bean-, cowpea and lablab-based supplements on milk yield, milk quality and economic returns in smallholder crossbred dairy cows was investigated in the 2013 and 2014 dry seasons. …”
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Promoting the use of home-mixed supplements as alternatives to commercial supplements in smallholder beef production systems in the subhumid region of Zimbabwe by Chakoma, Irenie, Manyawu, Godfrey J., Gwiriri, Lovemore C., Moyo, Siboniso, Dube, Sikhalazo, Imbayarwo-Chikosi, V.E., Halimani, T.E., Chakoma, C., Maasdorp, B.V., Buwu, V.

“…In trial 1, three diets (commercial concentrate, commercial concentrate partially substituted with mucuna, and commercial concentrate partially substituted with lablab–cowpea) compared with veld grass were allocated to 12 cattle in a complete randomised block design. …”
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Opportunities for sustainable legume business development: an experience from the public-private partnership progresses in south Eastern Ethiopia. by Amanu, T., Baars, E., Woldemeskel, Endalkachew, Abdulkadir, Birhan, Ampadu-Boakye, T., Giller, Kenneth E., Kanampiu, F.K.

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Analysis of technical efficiency among community-based seed producers in the savannas of Borno State, Nigeria by Amaza, P.S., Udoh, E.J., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Kamara, A.Y.

“…Farm level survey data from 396 seed producers who cultivated maize, cowpea, soybean, rice, groundnut and sorghum were obtained using well structured questionnaires. …”
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Are agricultural researchers working on the right crops to enable food and nutrition security under future climates? by Manners, Rhys, Etten, Jacob van

“…Three crops are significantly over-researched, namely maize, rice, and barley. Among pulses, cowpea, and lupin are generally overresearched. Common bean is highly underresearched, but these deficits concentrate in areas where it will likely suffer from climate change. …”
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Diseminación de Ascochyta phaseolorum en variedades de frijol de costa bajo diferentes sistemas de cultivo by Moreno, Raúl

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Evaluación participativa de alternativas agroforestales para la Producción de palmito (Bactris gasipaes H.B.K.) con cultivos anuales en tierras de ladera del Atlántico de Costa Ric... by Leal Rodrigues, Deborah

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Cassava agronomy research and adoption of improved practices in India: Major achievements during the past 30 years by George, James, Mohankumar, C.R., Nair, G.M., Ravindran, C.S.

“…Incorporation of cowpea as green manure in situ at time of planting cassava was found to be as effective as the application of FYM; in addition, it also reduced the N requirement by 50%. …”
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