Climate change, depleting natural resources, declining arable land and sky-high population
represent the main obstacles to the attainment of global food security. Therefore, to make a …

Background Seaweeds are a viable bioresource for suffering plants against salt stress, as
they abundant in nutrients, hormones, vitamins, secondary metabolites, and many other …

The cowpea variety Videza, which was used as the control, matures early (70 days after
planting), although it produces low yields. Gamma irradiation mutagenesis was used to …

Sprouts of potato tubers were excised from the three potato cultivars Agria, Hermes, and
Spunta, sterilized and subjected to shoot formation and propagation on Murashige and …

Gamma radiation is a very effective tool for inducing genetic variation in characters of many
plants. Black seeds of M2 mutant were obtained after exposure of an Egyptian cowpea …

Contemporary plant breeders no longer need to rely solely on traditional methodologies in
their work of assuring a sustainable and elastic level of world food production. However …

HEALTHY seeds of three soybean cultivars; Crawford, Giza 111 and Giza 35 were irradiated
with γ-irradiationat doses ranging from 100Gy to 600Gy with 100Gy interval. The cytogenetic …

One of the key strategy for improving the crops is plant mutation breeding, which generates
a large germplasm pool to improve crop characteristics. In this field experiment, the effects of …

Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp., commonly known as cowpea, is recognized as a primary pulse
crop by Food and Agriculture Organization. Cowpea is a nutritious and versatile crop, which …

ABSTRACT Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) is one of the most important foods and
economic vegetable crops in the world. Plant breeders resorted to using mutagenesis …