relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/28/
title: Cajanus
creator: Mallikarjuna, N
creator: Saxena, K B
creator: Jadhav, D R
subject: Pigeonpea
description: The cultivation of the pigeonpea goes back to at least  3,000 years. Its center of origin is India (Vavilov 1928;  van der Maesen 1980), from where it traveled to  East Africa and, by means of the slave trade, to the  American continent. Pigeonpea is an ancient crop  as there is a mention of pigeonpea in Sanskrit and  Buddhist literature dating back to 400 BC to 300 AD  (Krishnamurthy 1991). Today, pigeonpea is widely  cultivated in all tropical and semi-tropical regions of  both the old and the new world.
publisher: Springer
contributor: Kole, C
date: 2011
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/28/1/malli1bc.pdf
identifier:   Mallikarjuna, N and Saxena, K B and Jadhav, D R  (2011) Cajanus.   In:  Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and breeding resources Legume Crops and Forages.   Springer, Germany, pp. 21-34.  ISBN 9783642143861     
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14387-8