Record Details

Pigeonpea: From an Orphan to A Leader in Food Legumes

OAR@ICRISAT

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/5521/
http://www.cambridge.org/asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521764599&ss=cop
 
Title Pigeonpea: From an Orphan to A Leader in Food Legumes
 
Creator Gowda, C L L
Saxena, K B
Srivastava, R K
Upadhyaya, H D
Silim, S N
 
Subject Pigeonpea
Food legumes
 
Description More than six billion people of this planet are dependent on nurturing and
harnessing agro-ecological biodiversity for food and nutritional security. Human
life and civilizations have been influenced not only by cultivated taxa, but also by
wild germplasm. The origin and fast-track evolution of agricultural crops aided by
domestication have attracted considerable attention from evolutionary biologists,
plant explorers, archaeobotanists, geneticists, and plant breeders worldwide in
crops such as rice, wheat, and maize. However, legumes (barring soybean) have
remained relatively neglected by the researchers.
Globally, pigeonpea is grown on an area of 4.64 million hectares (Mha) annually
with production of 3.43 million tonnes...............
 
Publisher Cambridge University Press
 
Date 2012
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
application/pdf
 
Language en
en
 
Rights —
—
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5521/1/CHAP_16_2012.pdf
http://oar.icrisat.org/5521/7/Pigeonpea_froman%20Orphan%20_2012.pdf
Gowda, C L L and Saxena, K B and Srivastava, R K and Upadhyaya, H D and Silim, S N (2012) Pigeonpea: From an Orphan to A Leader in Food Legumes. In: Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, pp. 362-373. ISBN 9780521764599