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Legume genomics: A perspective

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Title Legume genomics: A perspective
 
Creator Thudi, M
Saxena, R K
Pandey, M K
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Chickpea
Pigeonpea
Groundnut
Genetics and Genomics
Legume Crops
 
Description Legumes such as chickpea, pigeonpea and
groundnut are among the most important
crops grown in Asia and Sub-Saharan
Africa. India is the major grower as well as
consumer of all these legume crops. In
fact, India is also the biggest importer of
chickpea and pigeonpea. The productivity
of these three legumes has been stagnant
and unacceptably low for decades as they
are grown in marginal environments.
Cereals have been the major beneficiary of
utilizing genomics approaches in breeding
and the above mentioned legumes have
started to catch up very recently with
cereals and other crops in terms of
genomic interventions in their breeding.
For instance, last ten years have witnessed
significant progress in the area of
development and deployment of genomic
tools in crop improvement programs.
Better genotypes with enhanced levels of
resistance to biotic and abiotic stress as
well as higher yields have been designed
and developed in all three legume crops.
Advances in sequencing and phenotyping
technologies are expected to see the
optimization and deployment of some
modern genomics-assisted breeding
approaches such as genomic selection,
early generation screening, genome editing
etc.We believe that by integrating genomics in
breeding, better seeds can be developed
and those seeds coupled with appropriate
agronomy and management practices can
provide better produce in the farmer’s
fields.
 
Publisher BS Publications
 
Contributor Dashavantha Reddy, V
Venkateswara Rao, K
Rama Krishna, K
 
Date 2017-04
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9984/1/Legume%20genomics%20-%20A%20perspective.pdf
Thudi, M and Saxena, R K and Pandey, M K and Varshney, R K (2017) Legume genomics: A perspective. In: Insights on Global Challenges and Opportunities for the Century Ahead. BS Publications, Hyderabad, pp. 321-326. ISBN 978‐93‐5230‐186‐7