首页|Agronomic Assessment of Short Duration Cowpea Cultivars (Vigna unguiculata) for Agronomic Traits and Grain Yield in the Forest-Savanna Agro-Ecological Zone of Nigeria
Agronomic Assessment of Short Duration Cowpea Cultivars (Vigna unguiculata) for Agronomic Traits and Grain Yield in the Forest-Savanna Agro-Ecological Zone of Nigeria
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Two field experiments were undertaken in the late wet season of 2011 and 2012 at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta to evaluate ten improved short duration cowpea cultivars. The work aimed at assessing the productivity of ten short duration cowpea cultivars in the rainforest transitory zone of Nigeria. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. The evaluation was based on the agronomic growth, yield and yield components of the cowpea cultivars. The results indicated that IT99K - 529 - 2 significantly had the shortest days-to-50% flowering (46 day) and days-to-95% maturity in 2012 (65 days). Also IT99K - 494 - 6, IT99K - 529 - 2, IT98K -573-2- 1, IT04K-332 - 1 and 1T06K-242 -3 cowpea cultivars proved significantly (P<0.05) superior to the local check (Ife Brown) in 100 seed weight, pod/plant, seed/pod, total pod and seed weight. Better seed weight per pod was observed among the cultivars as IT99K - 494 - 6 and IT99K - 529 - 2 had 36.8 and 30.1 % better seed weight over Ife Brown.
CowpeaEvaluationShort duration and forestsavanna agroecology zones
Department of Plant Physiology and Crop Production, College of Plant Science and Crop Production, Federal University of Agriculture, P.M.B.2240, Alabata, Abeokuta, Nigeria
Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria
Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Moor Plantation Ibadan, Nigeria
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