Determination of Pod and Seed Agronomic Properties of Local Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) Populations
Abstract
Objective: Cowpea has an important place among Fabaceae family, cultivated for human consumption for fresh leaves, fresh pods, fresh and dried grain, and important placed due to high amount of protein content among vegetables. Farmers have been preferred to use local population due to agro-morphological trait for cultivation and large number of population distributed through the mainly cultivated location in Turkey. This study was conducted to determine the agronomic properties of cultivated local cowpea genotypes obtained from several location of Turkey.
Material and Methods: In this study a total 44 different cowpea genotypes were examined for desirable agromorphological properties of fresh pods and dry grain based on consumer and farmers’ oriented traits.
Results: The research underlined that high level of agromorphological diversity in terms of evaluated agromorphological pods and seed traits among the genotypes. In addition, comparing to the commercial cultivars, there are superior genotypes were determined among the population for fresh pod and grain yield.
Conclusion: Application of the selection process by farmers based on their culinary uses during the cultivation can be partly explained the high level of diversity, furthermore large amount of variability among gene pool give advantages for selection promising genotypes.
Keywords
Plant genetic resources , pre-breeding studies , agronomic traits , variability
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