The witchweed Striga gesnerioides and the cultivated cowpea: A geographical and historical analysis of their West African distribution points to the prevalence of agro-ecological factors and the parasite’s multilocal evolution potential

• Abou-Soufianou Sadda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations UMR DAP, Université Dan Dicko Dankoulodo de Maradi, Maradi, Niger, IRD, UMR IEES-Paris, SU/IRD/CNRS/INRA/UPEC/Univ. Paris Diderot, Centre IRD de France Nord, Bondy Cedex, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9963-203X

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• Geo Coppens d’Eeckenbrugge ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: geo.coppens@cirad.fr

  Affiliations CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France, AGAP, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-0627

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• Abdoul-Aziz Saidou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France, AGAP, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France

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• Abdoulaye Diouf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UMR ECODYV, Université Dan Dicko Dankoulodo de Maradi, ADS Maradi, Niger

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8404-4112

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• Nouhou Salifou Jangorzo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UMR DAP, Université Dan Dicko Dankoulodo de Maradi, Maradi, Niger

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• Hassane Bil-Assanou Issoufou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UMR DAP, Université Dan Dicko Dankoulodo de Maradi, Maradi, Niger

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• Oumarou Malam-Issa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IRD, UMR IEES-Paris, SU/IRD/CNRS/INRA/UPEC/Univ. Paris Diderot, Centre IRD de France Nord, Bondy Cedex, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8357-914X

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