Ridge gourd, or turai, and cowpea, or lobia, are two versatile vegetables that can be combined to create some delicious meals ...

Two years ago, Nigeria commercialized SAMPEA 20-T, a breakthrough new variety of insect-resistant cowpea – a critical crop for nutrition and livelihoods throughout sub-Saharan Africa. This ...

Koki beans is a traditional Cameroonian dish prepared by fermenting cowpea flour with palm oil and spices. The mixture is ...

A long neglected crop with the potential to halt hunger for millions in Africa, sustain the livestock revolution underway in developing countries, rejuvenate nutrient-sapped soils, and even feed ...

According to researchers, cowpea is a major source of plant protein in the diet of Ghanaians but suffers up to 100 per cent yield losses from stress induced by drought, viruses and Striga gesnerioides ...

A team of UC Riverside scientists has received a nearly $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to sequence the genome of the cowpea and further their research developing superior ...

Joeva Rock's research has been previously funded by the Fulbright Program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Schmidt Family Foundation, the ...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is a vital legume crop cultivated across tropical and semi‐arid regions, providing an essential source of protein and micronutrients for millions of people. Its genetic ...

Plants get infected with viruses just like what we do. Scientists recently discovered that a virus that infects the cowpea plant could actually empower the immune cells to attack cancerous cells and ...

A plant virus that infects legumes, called cowpea mosaic virus, has a special power that you may not have known about: when injected into a tumor, it triggers the immune system to treat the cancer - ...