The document summarizes cowpea products and resources available from IITA including informative markers, genomic resources, informatics tools, germplasm, and the status of activities from two projects. Specifically, it provides details on markers for traits like disease resistance, drought tolerance, maturity, genomic maps and tools. It also lists the status of activities from the GCP projects as either not finished by the project end, to be delivered by the project end, or recently finished and ready for the catalog.

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