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Okra (Abelmoschus spp.) in West and Central Africa: Potential and progress on its improvement

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Title Okra (Abelmoschus spp.) in West and Central Africa: Potential and progress on its improvement
 
Creator Kumar, S
Dagnoko, S
Haougui, A
Ratnadass, A
Pasternak, D
Kouame, Ch
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Okra (Abelmoschus spp.) is a traditional vegetable crop with considerable area under cultivation in Africa and Asia with huge socio-economic potential in West and Central Africa. It has been called “a perfect villager’s vegetable” because of its robust nature, dietary fibers and distinct seed protein
balanced in both lysine and tryptophan amino acids (unlike the proteins of cereals and pulses) it provides. However, okra has been considered a minor crop and no attention was paid to its improvement in the international research program in past. This review describes a general overview of
okra’s nutritional and economic potential with special reference to its past and recent progress on germplasm regeneration, genetic studies and efforts on genetic improvement in West and Central Africa.
 
Publisher Academic Publishers
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/168/1/nset4.pdf
Kumar, S and Dagnoko, S and Haougui, A and Ratnadass, A and Pasternak, D and Kouame, Ch (2010) Okra (Abelmoschus spp.) in West and Central Africa: Potential and progress on its improvement. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 25. pp. 3590-3598. ISSN 1991-637X