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Genetic options for managing biotic stresses in pulse crops

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Title Genetic options for managing biotic stresses in pulse crops
 
Creator Gaur, P M
Chaturvedi, S K
 
Subject Chickpea
Pigeonpea
 
Description In the general, the productivity of pulses is low and due to large number of abiotic and biotic constraints. Thus, major in improvement of pulses have on breeding. Excellent progress through traditional breeding methods has been
made in development of varieties resistant to some diseases, e.g., fusarium wilt in chickpea and
plg,eOllpea; sterility mosaic in pigeonpea; mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV) in mungbean and urdbean; powdery mildew in urdbean, mungbean and pea; and rust in pea and lentil Similar level of success could not be achieved i11 breeding for resistance to other stresses due to unavailability of high level of in the cultivated and cross compatible
wild species. Mutation breeding has been rewarding in development of disease resistant varieties in chickpea and mungbean. Sources of high level of resistance have been identified in the wild species for several biotic stresses. Resistance to some stresses is available only
in the wild species, for example, resistance to cyst nematodes and bruchids in wild Cicer. However, limited progress has been made in introgression of resistance from
spe1cies into the cultivated species, mainly of barriers to interspecific hybridization cases. Concerted efforts are required to understand and to find the ways to overcome
the barriers to hybridization between the cultivated species and the wild species of tertiary gene pool. New tools of biotechnology such as transgenic and molecular marker assisted technologies are now available that can be used to accelerate the progress of crop improvement.
 
Date 2004
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4279/1/GeneticOptionsForManagingBiotic_2004.pdf
Gaur, P M and Chaturvedi, S K (2004) Genetic options for managing biotic stresses in pulse crops. In: Pulses in new perspective: proceedings of the National Symposium on Crop Diversification and Natural Resource Management, 20-22 December 2003, Indian Institute of Pulse Research, Kanpur, India.