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Genetic and Genomic Resources of Grain Legume Improvement

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11244/
doi:10.1016/C2012-0-00217-7
 
Title Genetic and Genomic Resources of Grain Legume Improvement
 
Creator Singh, M
Upadhyaya, H D
Bisht, I S
 
Subject Crop Improvement
Chickpea
Pigeonpea
Food Legumes
Genetics and Genomics
Germplasm
Legume Crops
 
Description Grain legumes, including common-bean, chickpea, pigeonpea, pea, cowpea, lentil and others, form important constituents of global diets, both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Despite this significant role, global production has increased only marginally in the past 50 years. The slow production growth, along with a rising human population and improved buying capacity has substantially reduced the per capita availability of food legumes. Changes in environmental climate have also had significant impact on production, creating a need to identify stable donors among genetic resources for environmentally robust genes and designing crops resilient to climate change.
Genetic and Genomic Resources of Grain Legume Improvement is the first book to bring together the latest resources in plant genetics and genomics to facilitate the identification of specific germplasm, trait mapping and allele mining to more effectively develop biotic and abiotic-stress-resistant grains. This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, crop biologists and students working with crop development.
 
Publisher Elsevier Inc
 
Date 2013
 
Type Book
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11244/1/Genetic%20and%20Genomic%20Resources%20of%20Grain%20Legume%20Improvement.pdf
Singh, M and Upadhyaya, H D and Bisht, I S (2013) Genetic and Genomic Resources of Grain Legume Improvement. Elsevier Inc. ISBN 978-0-12-397935-3