Genome-wide association study of biological nitrogen fixation traits in mini-core cowpea germplasm

• Gelase Nkurunziza ,

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

  * E-mail: nkurugelase@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Departement of Research, Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Burundi, Bujumbura, Burundi

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7644-6569

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• Emmanuel K. Mbeyagala ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel K. Mbeyagala, John Baptist Tumuhairwe, Thomas Lapaka Odong

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Agricultural Research Organization- National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute (NARO-NaSARRI), Serere, Uganda

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• Emmanuel Amponsah Adjei ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EAA, IOD, RE, AB, RHA, AB, KAFS, PT and MOS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliations Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Makerere University Regional Centre for Crop Improvement, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Tamale, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3138-6060

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• Isaac Onziga Dramadri ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EAA, IOD, RE, AB, RHA, AB, KAFS, PT and MOS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliations Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Makerere University Regional Centre for Crop Improvement, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9423-7126

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• Richard Edema ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EAA, IOD, RE, AB, RHA, AB, KAFS, PT and MOS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliations Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Makerere University Regional Centre for Crop Improvement, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Arfang Badji ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EAA, IOD, RE, AB, RHA, AB, KAFS, PT and MOS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Makerere University Regional Centre for Crop Improvement, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Rahiel Hagos Abrah ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EAA, IOD, RE, AB, RHA, AB, KAFS, PT and MOS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliations Makerere University Regional Centre for Crop Improvement, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Plant and Horticultural Sciences, College of Dryland Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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• Astere Bararyenya ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EAA, IOD, RE, AB, RHA, AB, KAFS, PT and MOS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Non-Timber Forest Products and Orphan Crop Species Unit, Laboratory of Applied Ecology (LEA), University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Cotonou, Benin

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• Kpedetin Ariel Frejus Sodedji ,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EAA, IOD, RE, AB, RHA, AB, KAFS, PT and MOS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Institute of Advance Training in Agriculture, University of Burundi, Bujumbura, Burundi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3450-3346

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• Phinehas Tukamuhabwa ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EAA, IOD, RE, AB, RHA, AB, KAFS, PT and MOS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Mildred Ochwo Ssemakula ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EAA, IOD, RE, AB, RHA, AB, KAFS, PT and MOS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• John Baptist Tumuhairwe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel K. Mbeyagala, John Baptist Tumuhairwe, Thomas Lapaka Odong

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Soil Science and Land Use Management, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Thomas Lapaka Odong

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel K. Mbeyagala, John Baptist Tumuhairwe, Thomas Lapaka Odong

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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