Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] is an important food security crop in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, cowpea production in some parts of this region is constrained by Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke infestation resulting ...

Genomic selection (GS) can accelerate variety improvement when training set (TS) size, and its relationship with the breeding set (BS) are optimized for prediction accuracies (PA) of genomic prediction (GP) models. Sixteen ...

Cassava, the most important root crop in the tropics, is intercropped with legumes due to the early growth of the legumes to suppress weeds. Field experiments were carried out from September, 2013 to September, 2014 to ...

Tea is gaining increasing consumer attention due to a growing awareness of the health benefits derived from its consumption. Even though several underutilized plants exist with potentials for processing into tea, research ...

An on-farm experiment was conducted in August 2010 to evaluate the efficacy of various weed management methods used in pineapple cultivation in Ghana in limiting the prevalence of the pineapple mealybugs and their tending ...

The effect of moisture content on the physical properties of the black variety of tiger nut was investigated using a completely randomized design, for four moisture content levels initially at 320 and sun dried to 27, 22 ...

Banana shoots were cultured on the medium containing either one of the three gelling agents agar, gelrite and gellan gum for 13 weeks. The concentrations of the nutrient elements especially macro-elements, were higher in ...

The flower bud thrips, Megalurothrips sjostedti, is a major pest of cowpea that can cause yield losses of up to 100%. The use of cowpea cultivars resistant to thrips is among the most promising control measures. Six ...

Six cowpea genotypes; UCC-W, UCC-E, UCC-P1, UCC-P4, UCC-07 and UCC-V6 were evaluated in the research field (Technology village) of School of Agriculture, University of Cape Coast, Ghana during the 2006/2007 cropping ...

Male-sterility in chili was documented for the first time in the 1950’s. Since then, considerable knowledge has been accumulated on the nature of the trait, the means of its identification, induction, inheritance of both ...