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Breeding Elite Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] Varieties for Improved Food Security and Income in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges

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dc.contributor.authorGomes, Ana Maria Figueira
dc.contributor.authorNhantumbo, Nascimento
dc.contributor.authorFerreira-Pinto, Manuela
dc.contributor.authorMassinga, Rafael
dc.contributor.authorRamalho, José C.
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro-Barros, Ana I.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-07T11:22:56Z
dc.date.available2021-10-07T11:22:56Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionChapterpt_PT
dc.description.abstractCowpea, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp, is among the most important grain legumes in Africa. Its nutritional value and biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) potential coupled with a high plasticity to environmental conditions places this legume in a unique position in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the context of food and nutritional security. However, cowpea yield and BNF contribution to agricultural systems in this sub-continent is far behind the average global values. The inability to run effective breeding programs to timely generate and deliver high yielding, nutritious and climate smart cowpea varieties, coupled with poor crop husbandry practices has been in the forefront of the current situation. In this chapter, the main constrains and opportunities to establish and run successful and effective cowpea production and breading programs in SSA are discussed. The discussion is built around the argument that SSA can benefit from its rich collection of landraces, as well as from high-throughput methodologies to assist the screening and the development of adapted, high yielding and nutritious varietiespt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.5772/intechopen.84985pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-83968-088-5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/22164
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.publisherIntechOpenpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectcowpeapt_PT
dc.subjectbreedingpt_PT
dc.subjectfood securitypt_PT
dc.subjectAfricapt_PT
dc.titleBreeding Elite Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] Varieties for Improved Food Security and Income in Africa: Opportunities and Challengespt_PT
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oaire.citation.titleLegume Crops. Chapter 8, p. 14, El-Esawi M.A. (eds.). Intechpt_PT
person.familyNameRamalho
person.givenNameJosé
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