1. Cowpea Product Delivery
Ousmane Boukar
IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria

2. Outline
Product Catalogue Summary
GCP Transition Checklist
• Not Finished by Project End
• To Be delivered by Project End
• Recently Finished, Ready for Catalog

3. Product Catalogue Summary – Cowpea
Informative markers available
• Fusarium resistance
• Drought tolerance (staygreen, yield, biomass)
• Maturity
• Striga resistance
• Root-knot nematode resistance
• Flower and foliar thrips resistance
• Bacterial blight resistance
• Macrophomina (ashy stem blight) resistance
Genomic resources
• Physical map (BACs)
• Microarray chip
• SSR marker kit
• Consensus genetic map (~1100 SNPs, 11 RILs)
• Genetic map (527 SNPs, 1 RIL)

4. Product Catalog Summary – Cowpea
Informatics/Application Tools
• HarvEST:Cowpea (Windows browser)
• BreedIt SNP Selector (input parents, cM, trait positions)
• ParentChecker (to infer RIL parent genotypes)
• KBio Converter (to change reference strand)
Germplasm
• Reference set (370 accessions)
• 20 drought tolerant reference lines for West Africa

5. GCP Transition Checklist – TL1
Activity 1: Develop MAGIC population
Activity 2: Develop genomic resources in support of
marker-assisted breeding
Activity 3: Employ MARS and MABC to develop
improved breeding lines
Activity 4: Capacity Building
Activity 5: Curate and Store Phase I and II Data

6. GCP Transition Checklist
Activity 1: Develop MAGIC population
• By December 2015, need funds to advance and bulk F8
Activity 3: Employ MARS and MABC to develop
improved breeding lines
• MARS, by December 2015, need funds for phenotyping
(two years, 4 populations, 1 per location)
• MABC, by December 2015, need funds for phenotyping
(two years, 8 populations, 2 per location)
Not Finished by Project End (2014)

7. GCP Transition Checklist
Activity 2: Develop genomic resources in support of
marker-assisted breeding
• RIL population seed and SNP data
Activity 3: Employ MARS and MABC to develop
improved breeding lines
• QTL for aphid resistance published
To be Delivered by Project End (2014)

8. GCP Transition Checklist
Activity 4: Capacity Building
• Training African students and breeders
Activity 5: Curate and Store Phase I and II Data
• Finish formatting and delivering phenotype and genotype
datasets
To be delivered by project end (2014)

9. GCP Transition Checklist
Activity 2: Develop genomic resources in support of
marker-assisted breeding
• ~1000 mapped KASP SNPs
• Updated consensus map (11 RILs)
• List of 100-400 customized SNP markers developed for 4
MARS and 8 MABC breeding populations
• SNP marker data used for MARS and MABC breeding
decisions
Recently finished, ready for catalog

10. GCP Transition Checklist
Activity 3: Employ MARS and MABC to develop
improved breeding lines
• Markers for 5 heat tolerance QTL
Recently finished, ready for catalog

11. Thank You