Browsing by Author "Cullis, Christopher"

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  • Development of marama bean, an orphan legume, as a crop 
    Cullis, Christopher; Lawlor, David W.; Chimwamurombe, Percy; Bbebe, Nchimunya; Kunert, Karl J.; Vorster, Barend Juan (Wiley Open Access, 2019-07)
    Advances have been recently made in the breeding and characterization of three major legume crops of the semiarid tropics, chickpea, pigeon pea, and groundnut. However, other wild-growing legumes, called “orphan legumes,” ...
  • Enhancing faba bean (Vicia faba L.) genome resources 
    Cooper, James W.; Wilson, Michael H.; Derks, Martijn F.L.; Smit, Sandra; Kunert, Karl J.; Cullis, Christopher; Foyer, Christine H. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
    Grain legume improvement is currently impeded by a lack of genomic resources. The paucity of genome information for faba bean can be attributed to the intrinsic difficulties of assembling/annotating its giant (~13 Gb) ...
  • Neglecting legumes has compromised human health and sustainable food production 
    Foyer, Christine H.; Lam, Hon-Ming; Nguyen, Henry T.; Siddique, Kadambot H.M.; Varshney, Rajeev; Colmer, Timothy D.; Cowling, Wallace; Bramley, Helen; Mori, Trevor A.; Hodgson, Jonathan M.; Cooper, James W.; Miller, Anthony J.; Kunert, Karl J.; Vorster, Barend Juan; Cullis, Christopher; Ozga, Jocelyn A.; Wahlqvist, Mark L.; Liang, Yan; Shou, Huixia; Shi, Kai; Yu, Jingquan; Fodor, Nandor; Kaiser, Brent N.; Wong, Fuk-Ling; Valliyodan, Babu; Considine, Michael J. (Nature Publishing Group, 2016-08)
    The United Nations declared 2016 as the International Year of Pulses (grain legumes) under the banner 'nutritious seeds for a sustainable future'. A second green revolution is required to ensure food and nutritional security ...
  • Orphan legumes growing in dry environments : marama Bean as a case study 
    Cullis, Christopher; Chimwamurombe, Percy; Barker, Nigel; Kunert, Karl J.; Vorster, Barend Juan (Frontiers Media, 2018-08-15)
    Plants have developed morphological, physiological, biochemical, cellular, and molecular mechanisms to survive in drought-stricken environments with little or no water caused by below-average precipitation. In this ...
  • Perspective on the present state and future usefulness of marama bean (Tylosema esculentum) 
    Cullis, Christopher; Chimwamurombe, Percy; Kunert, Karl J.; Vorster, Juan (Wiley Open Access, 2023-03)
    Recent focus on indigenous knowledge of plant species that have long been consumed by mankind, but not having a prominent place in organized agriculture, has raised the profile of what steps are needed to bring such ...