The phosphorus in legumes plays an essential role as part of the membrane system cell, chloroplast and mitochondria. Groundnut, being a legume oilseed crop, requires significant amount phosphorus. Plants use it for energy transfer metabolic processes such photosynthesis (in form ATP ADP), starch sugar transformation nutrient movement. In addition to promoting cell division development good root...

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), a self-pollinated legume is an important crop cultivated in 24 million ha world over for extraction of edible oil and food uses. The kernels are rich in oil (48-50%) and protein (25-28%), and are source of several vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, biologically active polyphenols, flavonoids, and isoflavones. Improved varieties of groundnut with high yield potent...

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is essential to prepare numerous popular dishes across sub-Saharan Africa. However, groundnuts may contain hazardous aflatoxin levels. There scant information on levels in Uganda and the causal agents of contamination stored groundnut. High content hinders trading groundnut products international markets, affecting Uganda's economy. The current study assessed wit...

Due to narrow genetic base of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), induction of genetic variability was undertaken by treating seeds of TFDRG 5 with 200 and 300 Gy of gamma rays and with 1, 2 and 3 mM of sodium azide (NaN 3 ) singly and in combination. The combination of 200 Gy and 3 mM of NaN 3 induced maximum number of mutants with a frequency of 2.48% in M 2 generation. In all, 63 true breeding ...

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important oilseed and food crop of the world. Breeding for disease resistance is one of major objectives in groundnut breeding. Early leaf spot (ELS) is one of the major destructive diseases worldwide and in West Africa, particularly in Burkina Faso causing significant yield losses. Conventional breeding approaches have been employed to develop improved var...

On-farm experiments and pot trials were conducted on eight West African soils to explore the mechanisms governing the often reported legume rotation-induced cereal growth increases in this region. Crops comprised pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor Moench), maize (Zea mays L.), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata Walp.) and groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.). In groundnut trials t...