In recent years, with the rapid development of molecular biology, molecular markers have been widely used in genetic breeding of various crops including cowpea. However, molecular researches in cowpea are lack of systematic summary. This review presents an overview of accomplishments on different aspects of molecular markers in cowpea genetic breeding, such as genetic diversity analysis, geneti...

Viral attacks on natural populations of herbaceous forage legumes might have adverse effect on seed and herbage production, hence this study was carried out to investigate the type and incidence of viruses occurring on these plants in Nigeria. Protein A-sandwich (PAS) and antigen-coated plate (ACP) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) were used to detect ten legume viruses from 100 leaf s...

It is often claimed that programmed cell death (pcd) exists in plants and that a form of pcd known as the hypersensitive response is triggered as a defense mechanism by microbial pathogens. However, in contrast to animals, no feature in plants universally identifies or defines pcd. We have looked for a hallmark of pcd in animal cells, namely, DNA cleavage, in plant cells killed by infection wit...

BACKGROUND Cowpeas are important staple legumes among the rural poor in northern Ghana. Our objectives were to assess the iron and zinc content of cowpea landraces and identify factors that predict the intention of mothers/caregivers to give cowpeas to their schoolchildren. METHODS AND FINDINGS We performed biochemical analysis on 14 landraces of cowpeas and assessed the opinion of 120 caregi...

Background: Microbial and fungal contamination of agricultural produce has been a health challenge over the years. The present study surveyed microbial and aflatoxin contamination in groundnut, maize, and cowpea collected from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Methods: Ninety samples of maize, groundnut, and cowpea were purchased from six major markets in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The samples were first e...

In the current study, response surface methodology (RSM) was used to assess the effects of extraction time and temperature on the content of bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity of purple basil leaf (Ocimum basilicum L.) extracts. The stability of anthocyanins in relation to temperature, light and copigmentation was also studied. The highest anthocyanin content was 67.40 mg/100 g extrac...

An endogenous cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) RNA-protein complex (CPMV replication complex) capable of elongating in vitro preexisting nascent chains to full-length viral RNAs has been solubilized from the membrane fraction of CPMV-infected cowpea leaves using Triton X-100 and purified by Sepharose 2B chromatography and glycerol gradient centrifugation in the presence of Triton X-100. Analysis of t...

A field experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of variety and spatial arrangement on pest incidence, damage and subsequent yield of cowpea in a cowpea/maize intercrop. Two varieties of cowpea (Tvu 13076 and Ife brown) and two spatial arrangements (2:3 maize/ cowpea & 1:1maize/ cowpea intercrops) were investigated. There was Lower population density of Maruca vitrata among the 1:1...

this research was conducted to assay the effect of different levels of irrigation on morphological and physicochemical characteristics of three cultivars of basil (ocimum basilicum l.), in ferdowsi university of mashhad, 2012. the pot experiment was performedas a factorial based on randomized complete design with four replications. the factors included three commercial cultivars of basil (comin...

The fortified of soft wheat flour with cowpea flour in bread making was investigated. The Soft wheat flour (SWF) was substituted by cowpea flour at levels of 5, 15 and 20%. The protein content of composite breads ranged from 6.1 – 9.9%. Significant difference was observed in moisture, protein and crude fibre contents of control (wheat bread) and composite bread at 5% addition of cowpea. Water a...