This document summarizes activities from Phase II of the Tropical Legumes 1 project, which aims to improve cowpea productivity in marginal environments in sub-Saharan Africa. Key activities included developing a multi-parent advanced generation intercross (MAGIC) population, generating genomic resources like an improved consensus map, and employing marker-assisted recurrent selection (MARS) and marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) to develop improved cowpea lines. The project involved multiple institutions across Africa and generated important products like a MAGIC population, genomic resources, quantitative trait loci (QTL) discoveries, and preliminary advanced breeding lines.
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