Record Details

ENHANCING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE IN HYACINTH BEAN (LABLAB PURPUREUS. L)

KRISHI: Publication and Data Inventory Repository

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title ENHANCING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE IN HYACINTH BEAN (LABLAB PURPUREUS. L)
Not Available
 
Creator Krishna K. Rai, Nagendra Rai* and Shashi Pandey-Rai
 
Subject biotic stress, epigenomics, functional genomics, phytohormones, stress tolerance
 
Description Not Available
Among various food and fibre crops, the crop legumes are the key sources of protein,
minerals, vitamins, iron, zinc, calcium, and magnesium, as well as omega-3 fatty acids.
The importance of these legumes is higher where a large section of the society depends on
vegetarian food such as in India. The unique ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen by the
legume crops play a crucial role in sustaining the farming system by making available the
residual nitrogen to the non-legume crops. Legumes also serve as an excellent source of
high quality and nutritious feed to livestock leading to ∼20% increase in animal
productivity (Tarawali and Ogunbile 1995). The human civilization has a long association
with legume cultivation in the last 6000 years which has contributed significantly toward
economical, nutritional, and improving the livelihood of subsistence farmers across the
world.
Indian bean or hyacinth bean (Dolichos lablab L. or Lablab purpureus L.) is a twining
herbaceous crop legume with 2n = 22 chromosomes belonging to family Fabaceae which
is being maneuverer for various purposes such as a green vegetable, pulse, soil
improvement and protection, forage and weed control (Rai et al. 2016). The wild forms of
Indian bean are believed to have originated in India and were introduced into Africa from
South East Asia during the eighth century. Outside India, hyacinth bean is prevalent in
Africa, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania (Maass et al. 2010)
and have been called by various common names such as poor man bean and tanage bean
in England, rongaidolichos and lablab bean in Australia, betas in Philippines, lubiaafin in
Sudan, hyacinth bean in Brazil and in India(Gibbs et al. 2008).
Not Available
 
Date 2021-08-04T08:52:19Z
2021-08-04T08:52:19Z
2019-01-10
 
Type Book chapter
 
Identifier Not Available
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/52928
 
Language English
 
Relation Not Available;
 
Publisher Nova Science Publishers, Inc