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Developing improved varieties of pigeonpea

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/10510/
http://dx.doi.org/10.19103/AS.2017.0023.33
10.19103/AS.2017.0023.33
 
Title Developing improved varieties of pigeonpea
 
Creator Saxena, K B
Chauhan, Y S
Sameer Kumar, C V
Hingane, A J
Kumar, R V
Saxena, R K
Rao, G V R
 
Subject Crop Improvement
Plant Breeding
Pigeonpea
 
Description By 2050 the world population is likely to reach nine billion, with most of the increase in the
semi-arid tropics where many of the world’s poor reside. It has been estimated that this will
require a 70% increase in food production (Alexandratos and Bruinsma, 2012). Increasing
food production to this extent in the face of looming climate changes, decreasing water
resources, escalating production cost and limitation of arable land will be a Herculean
task. In this context, a food legume, popularly called as pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.)
Millsp.), red gram (tuar) or yellow lentil, could play a significant role in providing food and
nutritional security. This is possible because this crop has potential to grow well in warmer
conditions with limited water and inputs...
 
Publisher Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
 
Contributor Sivasankar, S
Bergvinson, D
Gaur, P M
Kumar, S
Beebe, S
Tamo, M
 
Date 2018
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10510/1/2018_Developing%20improved%20varieties_Book%20Chapter.pdf
Saxena, K B and Chauhan, Y S and Sameer Kumar, C V and Hingane, A J and Kumar, R V and Saxena, R K and Rao, G V R (2018) Developing improved varieties of pigeonpea. In: Achieving Sustainable Cultivation Of Grain Legumes Volume 2: Improving Cultivation Of Particular Grain Legumes. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, Cambridge, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9781786761408