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Improvement of cool-season food legumes for adaptation to intercropping systems: breeding faba bean for intercropping with durum wheat as a case study

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Title Improvement of cool-season food legumes for adaptation to intercropping systems: breeding faba bean for intercropping with durum wheat as a case study
 
Creator Abou-Khater, Lynn
 
Contributor Maalouf, Fouad
Balech, Rind
He, Yuhua
Zong, Xuxiao
Rubiales, Diego
Agrawal, Shiv Kumar
 
Subject faba bean
cool season food legumes
traits for intercropping
 
Description Although the transition toward a more sustainable agricultural system is sparking the interest of scientists and farmers around the globe, breeding programs are still focusing on optimizing cultivars intended for the monoculture system, and most cultivars available on the market are not suitable for intercropping. The incorporation of versatile cool-season food legumes (CSFLs) in the intercropping system is a promising way toward more diversified and sustainable cropping systems. However, as the selection of good-performing cultivars under sole cropping does not always lead to a good performance in intercropping, the development of an alternative breeding scheme for intercropping is now a necessity. The case study of faba bean–wheat intercropping was used to select for traits associated with better performance offaba bean, resulting in identifying the combined grain yield, 100-seed weight, number of pods per plant, and canopy height as key traits for faba bean–wheat intercropping suitability. Incorporating these traits in the breeding programs would be the cornerstone of the prospective transition.
 
Date 2024-06-05T19:44:11Z
2024-06-05T19:44:11Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/ebd82f2c91c9ca71f1ad3bbff6817bc7
Lynn Abou-Khater, Fouad Maalouf, Rind Balech, Yuhua He, Xuxiao Zong, Diego Rubiales, Shiv Kumar Agrawal. (16/5/2024). Improvement of cool-season food legumes for adaptation to intercropping systems: breeding faba bean for intercropping with durum wheat as a case study. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/69325
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher Frontiers Media
 
Source Frontiers in Plant Science;15,(2024)