TY  - CHAP
N2  - 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.
ED  - Kole, C
AV  - restricted
A1  - Mallikarjuna, N
A1  - Saxena, K B
A1  - Jadhav, D R
TI  - Cajanus
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14387-8
T2  - Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and breeding resources Legume Crops and Forages
SP  - 21
Y1  - 2011///
ID  - icrisat28
EP  - 34
SN  - 9783642143861
PB  - Springer
CY  - Germany
ER  -