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Challenges Cowpea genetics and opportunities and breeding for cowpea production
2.6 Breeding cowpea varieties for resistance to Striga gesnerioides
and Alectra vogelii 154
B.B. Singh
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Biotechnology for cowpea
3.1 Isolation, sequencing, and mapping of resistance gene analogs from 167
cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.)
B.S. Gowda, J.L. Miller, S.S. Rubin, D.R. Sharma, and M.P. Timko
3.2 Regeneration and genetic transformation in cowpea 185
J. Machuka, A. Adesoye, and O.O. Obembe
3.3 Molecular cloning in cowpea: perspectives on the status of 197
genome characterization and gene isolation for crop improvement
M.P. Timko
3.4 Potential role of transgenic approaches in the control of 213
cowpea insect pests
J. Machuka
3.5 Insecticidal activities of the African yam bean seed lectin on 223
the development of the cowpea beetle and the pod-sucking bug
O.G. Okeola, J.S. Machuka, and I.O. Fasidi
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Cowpea contributions to farming systems/agronomic
improvement of cowpea production
4.1 Cowpea as a key factor for a new approach to integrated 233
crop–livestock systems research in the dry savannas of
West Africa
S.A. Tarawali, B.B. Singh, S.C. Gupta, R. Tabo, F. Harris,
S. Nokoe, S. Fernández-Rivera, A. Bationo,
V.M. Manyong, K. Makinde, and E.C. Odion
4.2 Cowpea rotation as a resource management technology for 252
cereal-based systems in the savannas of West Africa
R.J. Carsky, B. Vanlauwe, and O. Lyasse
4.3 Advances in cowpea cropping systems research 267
O.O. Olufajo and B.B. Singh
4.4 Improving cowpea–cereals-based cropping systems in 278
the dry savannas of West Africa
B.B. Singh, and H.A. Ajeigbe
4.5 Cowpea varieties for drought tolerance 287
B.B. Singh and T. Matsui
4.6 Soil fertility management and cowpea production in the 301
semiarid tropics
A. Bationo, B.R. Ntare, S.A. Tarawali, and R. Tabo
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