Legumes are important components of sustainable agricultural production, food, nutrition
and income systems of developing countries. In spite of their importance, legume crop …

Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is a leguminous and oil crop with rapidly growing importance
and demand in Africa following the increasing demand for oil and livestock and poultry …

Artemisia annua is an important medicinal crop used for the production of the anti-malarial
compound artemisinin. In order to assist in the production of affordable high quality …

Abstract Development of high yielding and stable cultivars of various crops across the
Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states is in line with the recently …

Soybean productivity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is less than half of the global average
yield. To plug the productivity gap, further improvement in grain yield must be attained by …

Combining ability is one of the most important information breeders use to identify superior
inbred lines on the basis of their performance in hybrid combinations. The objectives of our …

Introduction Smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are increasingly producing
soybean for food, feed, cash, and soil fertility improvement. Yet, the difference between the …

Formal public sector soybean breeding in Africa spans over four decades, and it was initiated
by the International Institute of Tropical Agricultural (IITA). As the demand of soybean …

Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] is an important oilseed crop worldwide and it has recently
become the crop of interest in Ghana. In this study, 142 soybean accessions were …

Glycine max (L.) Merr.(soybean) is an economically, agriculturally and industrially (food,
paper, textile, pharmaceuticals) important crop on a global scale. It is often referred to as a ‘…