A genome-wide association and meta-analysis reveal regions associated with seed size in cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp]

Sassoum Lo,María Muñoz-Amatriaín,Samuel A. Hokin,Ndiaga Cisse,Philip A. Roberts,Andrew D. Farmer,Shizhong Xu,Timothy J. Close

A genome-wide association and meta-analysis reveal regions associated with seed size in cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp]

2019

Sassoum Lo
María Muñoz-Amatriaín
Samuel A. Hokin
Ndiaga Cisse
Philip A. Roberts
Andrew D. Farmer
Shizhong Xu
Timothy J. Close

Key message This paper combined GWAS, meta-analysis and sequence homology comparison with common bean to identify regions associated with seed size variation in domesticated cowpea.

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Genetics
Vigna
Biology
Domestication
Genome-wide association study
Sequence homology
Locus (genetics)
Candidate gene
Single-nucleotide polymorphism
Pleiotropy
Genome
Synteny

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