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Genomics and Physiological Approaches for Root Trait Breeding to Improve Drought Tolerance in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85546-0_10
 
Title Genomics and Physiological Approaches
for Root Trait Breeding to Improve Drought
Tolerance in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
 
Creator Varshney, R K
Pazhamala, L T
Kashiwagi, J
Gaur, P M
Krishnamurthy, L
Hoisington, D A
 
Subject Chickpea
 
Description Chickpea ranks third among pulses, fifth among grain legumes, and 15th among
grain crops of the world. In 2006, the world chickpea cultivation area was 10.7 Mha
with over 8 Mha grown in India, Pakistan, and Iran, with a further 1 Mha grown in
other countries of Asia, the Middle East, and Canada. Total production was 8.4 Mt,
and the average yield was 772 kg/ha (FAOSTAT 2006). Although chickpea is
cultivated in about 50 countries, 95% of its area is in the developing countries
where South Asia alone covers almost 71% of the world chickpea harvested area.
Most of the chickpea harvested is consumed locally and the global trade is about
12% of the total production. The global demand for chickpea is projected to be
11.1 Mt in 2010. Under optimum growing conditions, the yield potential of
chickpea is 6 t/ha (Singh 1987), which is much higher than the current global
yield average of ~0.8 t/ha (Ahmad et al. 2005).
 
Publisher Springer
 
Contributor de Oliveira, Antonio Costa
Varshney, R K
 
Date 2011
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
application/pdf
 
Language en
en
 
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http://oar.icrisat.org/17/5/Varshney.Pl__Genomics_2011.pdf
Varshney, R K and Pazhamala, L T and Kashiwagi, J and Gaur, P M and Krishnamurthy, L and Hoisington, D A (2011) Genomics and Physiological Approaches for Root Trait Breeding to Improve Drought Tolerance in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). In: Root Genomics. Springer, Germany, pp. 233-250. ISBN 9783540855453