http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/28 2011-11-14T05:12:23Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata http://oar.icrisat.org/28/ Cajanus Mallikarjuna, N Saxena, K B Jadhav, D R Pigeonpea 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. Springer Kole, C 2011 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://oar.icrisat.org/28/1/malli1bc.pdf 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 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14387-8 info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage