Identifying critical growth stage and resilient genotypes in cowpea under drought stress contributes to enhancing crop tolerance for improvement and adaptation in Cameroon

• Toscani Ngompe Deffo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Genetics, Biotechnology, Agriculture and Plant Production Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

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• Eric Bertrand Kouam ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ericbkouam@yahoo.com, eric.kouam@univ-dschang.org

  Affiliation Genetics, Biotechnology, Agriculture and Plant Production Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6518-3301

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• Marie Solange Mandou,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genetics, Biotechnology, Agriculture and Plant Production Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

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• Raba Allah-To Bara,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Genetics, Biotechnology, Agriculture and Plant Production Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

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• Asafor Henry Chotangui,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genetics, Biotechnology, Agriculture and Plant Production Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

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• Adamou Souleymanou,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genetics, Biotechnology, Agriculture and Plant Production Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

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• Honore Beyegue Djonko,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genetics, Biotechnology, Agriculture and Plant Production Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

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• Christopher Mubeteneh Tankou

  Roles Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Genetics, Biotechnology, Agriculture and Plant Production Research Unit, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

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