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Multi-purpose cowpea inoculation for improved yields in small holder farms in Kenya

Abstract

This PhD project intends to; 1) identify competitive and effective rhizobial strains capable of providing sufficient nitrogen derived from BNF for cowpea cultivated in two agro-ecological zones in Kenya, 2) identify optimal cowpea cultivar-rhizobial strain combinations with improved yield and protein content for different growing conditions of small holder farmers in Kenya, 3) develop molecular markers for the evaluation and monitoring of rhizobial inoculation of improved strains, and 4) develop efficient phenotyping assays for large scale screening of cowpea genotypes for improved symbiosis that can be implemented in breeding programs.

Financing/ Donor
  • Sawiris Fellowships Program of ETH Globals
Project partners
  • IITA Kenya
  • ETH Zürich
FiBL project leader/ contact
  • Thonar Cécile (Department of Soil Sciences)
(people who are not linked are former FiBL employees)
FiBL project staff
  • Messmer Monika (Department of Crop Sciences)
  • Thonar Cécile (Department of Soil Sciences)
(people who are not linked are former FiBL employees)
Role of FiBL

Research and coordination

FiBL project number 10067
Date modified 12.11.2019
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