Publications by authors named "Salim Lamini"
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- - The cowpea aphid is a significant pest affecting cowpea crops in West Africa, necessitating farmer control, especially during the vegetative stage, making aphid-resistant crop varieties a valuable alternative to costly insecticides.
- - Researchers developed a new cowpea variety, Zaayura, by using gene pyramiding techniques to incorporate two aphid-resistance genes from different sources through marker-assisted backcrossing, enhancing its robustness against aphid infestations.
- - After multiple backcross generations, five improved lines of Zaayura were created, showing high recurrent parent genome recovery and superior resistance to cowpea aphids, indicating promising results for sustainable farming practices.
Macrophomina root rot disease (MRRD) caused by is an emerging threat to the profitable cowpea production in northern Ghana. Recommended control methods including the use of fungicides are ineffective and expensive for resource poor farmers whilst biocontrol options are not commercially available. An integrated method based on host plant resistance is considered the cheapest and most effective method of managing the disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlobal climate change is expected to further intensify the already harsh conditions in the dry savannah ecological zones of sub-Saharan Africa, posing serious threats to food and income security of millions of smallholder farmers. Breeding cowpea for improved earliness could help minimize this risk, by ensuring that the crops complete their lifecycle before the cessation of rainfall. In this study, we crossed two sets of cowpea lines showing contrasting phenotypes for earliness in terms of days to 50% flowering (DFF).
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