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Description: African farmers domesticated the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) from its wild form, in a process of inconscious selection over many centuries. Domesticated cowpea has much larger seeds that have lost its dormancy of the wild progenitor.
Title: Wild and cultivated cowpea (7856427546)
Credit: wild and cultivated cowpea Uploaded by Elitre
Author: Ton Rulkens from Mozambique
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