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Lentil: breeding
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Lentil: breeding
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Erskine, William
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Sarker, Ashutosh
Agrawal, Shiv Kumar |
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genetic
nutritional quality Lentil |
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| Description |
The lentil is among the earliest domesticates from the Near East Fertile Crescent. With seed of high nutritional value and a low water use, the food legume crop – lentils – is well adapted to cereal-based dryland cropping in Mediterranean and subtropical regions. Canada and India are the largest producers. Major production problems addressable through breeding are outlined. To solve these problems, available genetic resources and breeding methodologies for today and tomorrow (biotechnology) are described. Examples of key achievements such as the broadening of the genetic base of the crop in South Asia, the development of plant types suited to a mechanized harvest, and the breeding of lentil with winterhardiness are given. The article concludes by highlighting future challenges in lentil breeding.
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2016-01-04
2017-03-09T12:48:29Z 2017-03-09T12:48:29Z |
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Book Chapter
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https://mel.cgiar.org/dspace/limited
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123944375002102?via%3Dihub https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313904397_Lentil_Breeding William Erskine, Ashutosh Sarker, Shiv Kumar Agrawal. (4/1/2016). Lentil: breeding, in "Encyclopedia of Food Grains (Second Edition)". Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/6344 Timeless limited access |
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en
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CC-BY-NC-4.0
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PDF
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Elsevier
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