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The Chickpea Genome

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/10433/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66117-9
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66117-9
 
Title The Chickpea Genome
 
Creator Varshney, R K
Thudi, M
Muehlbauer, F J
 
Subject Agriculture
Plant Genetics
Plant Breeding
Smallholder Agriculture
Plant Genetic Resources
Chickpea
Drylands Agriculture
Food Legumes
Genetics and Genomics
Climate Change
Food Security
Germplasm Collection
Legume Crops
 
Description This book sheds new light on the chickpea genome sequencing and resequencing of chickpea germplasm lines and provides insights into classical genetics, cytogenetics, and trait mapping. It also offers an overview of the latest advances in genome sequencing and analysis. The growing human population, rapid climate changes and limited amounts of arable land are creating substantial challenges in connection with the availability and affordability of nutritious food for smallholder farmers in developing countries. In this context, climate smart crops are essential to alleviating the hunger of the millions of poor and undernourished people living in developing countries. In addition to cereals, grain legumes are an integral part of the human diet and provide sustainable income for smallholder farmers in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Among grain legumes, the chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is the second most important in terms of production and productivity. Besides being a rich source of proteins, it can fix atmospheric nitrogen through symbiosis with rhizobia and increase the input of combined nitrogen. Several abiotic stresses like drought, heat, salinity, together with biotic stresses like Fusarium wilt, Ascochyta blight, and Botrytis grey mould have led to production losses, as the chickpeas is typically grown in the harsh climates of our planet’s semi-arid regions.
 
Publisher Springer International Publishing
 
Contributor Varshney, R K
Thudi, M
Muehlbauer, F J
 
Date 2017
 
Type Book
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10433/1/The%20Chickpea%20Genome-Springer%20International%20Publishing%20%282017%29.pdf
Varshney, R K and Thudi, M and Muehlbauer, F J (2017) The Chickpea Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes . Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-66115-5