Agromorphological diversity of local Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) collected in Benin

Genetic Variability, Heritability, and Clustering Pattern Exploration of Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea L. Verdc) Accessions for the Perfection of Yield and Yield-Related Traits

“…The correlation coefficient is an essential measure of an index in plant breeding; after all, it is the measurement of the magnitude of the correlation between genetic and nongenetic two or more variables. Our findings were supported to those achieved by Mohammed [ 63 ] in Cote d'Ivoire, [ 66 ] observed among 52 landraces in Benin, and [ 31 ] in Cameroon. The accessions with large size seeds fulfill the demand of the farmers as well as consumers and often treated as good commercial qualities [ 83 ].…”

“…In the present, investigation of clustering was supported in the past research, observed by Unigwe et al [ 43 ], Gbaguidi et al [ 66 ], Sobda et al [ 75 ], and Bonny et al [ 102 ] in their studied significant variation regarding morphological characteristics distributed in Bambara groundnut, [ 96 ] in chili pepper for high yield and CMT values, [ 83 ] in cowpea genotypes, and [ 103 , 104 ] in Capsicum annuum L. genotypes. The cluster analysis based on the UPGMA model using numerical traits constructed four distinct groups of Bambara groundnut genotypes in south Africa reported by Unigwe et al [ 43 ], and Atoyebi et al [ 105 ] also constructed dendrogram using statistical analysis software (SAS version 9.3) among 300 accessions of Bambara groundnut.…”

“…An observation among Bambara groundnut genotypes with these 3 types of growth habits was noticed by Ntundu et al [ 1 ] in Tanzania and [ 30 ] in Cameroon which supported our research findings on qualitative traits. In the study of 52 landraces of Bambara groundnut by Gbaguidi et al [ 66 ], it was concluded that the significant variation is present among all the qualitative traits, taken into consideration in his study. There was a similar observation by Ntundu et al [ 1 ] that the farmers prefer bunch-type landraces compared to other reasons of it provide more advantages to the farmer especially during harvesting period where the roots and stems were unearthed.…”

The draft genomes of five agriculturally important African orphan crops

“…With good nitrogen-fixing ability and drought tolerance, on average the seeds contain 63% carbohydrate, 19% protein, and 6.5% fat, thereby making bambara groundnut a complete food. Approximately 165,000 tons of this species are produced in Africa each year, but yields are low because efforts to improve Bambara have been neglected for many years [9]. The genomes of mung bean and adzuki bean, which also belong to the Vigna genus, have been published [10, 11].…”

The complete plastid genomes of two Fabaceae orphan crops from Africa

“…With the rapid growth of human population, food and nutrition shortage becomes a global challenge, and the utilization of unheeded or orphan crops potentially provides an alternative solution to this problem (Naluwairo 2011). Lablab purpureus (Dolichos bean) and Vigna subterranea (Bambara groundnut) are members of tribe Phaseoleae in Fabaceae, both of them are widely environmental adaptive and with the ability of nitrogen-fixing, regarded as important protein sources for African (Robotham and Chapman 2017;Gbaguidi et al 2018). Here, we report the complete plastid genomes of the two neglected crops L. purpureus and V. subterranea on the basis of Illumina paired-end sequencing data.…”