%C Germany
%A N Mallikarjuna
%A K B Saxena
%A D R Jadhav
%I Springer
%B Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and breeding resources Legume Crops and Forages
%L icrisat28
%P 21-34
%D 2011
%X 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.
%E C Kole
%T Cajanus