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Improvement of Yield in Cowpea Varieties Using Different Breeding Approaches

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Cowpea is an important warm-season legume growing in arid and semi-arid regions. The cowpea productivity is low compared to other legumes such as chickpea, lentil, faba bean and mung bean. The low productivity is attributed to different abiotic and biotic stresses, therefore, different breeding strategies have been introduced and implemented to alleviate the negative impact of environmental stresses. In this chapter, we reviewed the contributions of conventional approaches and modern breeding strategies and their role in the improvement of cowpea genotypes. This chapter discusses in detail challenges and landmark achievements of hybridization, tissue culture, mutation breeding and molecular breeding and its role in mitigating the abiotic and biotic stresses, improving yield and nutritional traits, mining of QTLs associated with economically important traits, development and fine tuning of genetic maps in cowpea.

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Raina, A., Laskar, R.A., Wani, M.R., Khan, S. (2023). Improvement of Yield in Cowpea Varieties Using Different Breeding Approaches. In: Raina, A., Wani, M.R., Laskar, R.A., Tomlekova, N., Khan, S. (eds) Advanced Crop Improvement, Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26669-0_6

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