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Problems and Prospects for Grain Legume Breeding

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Title Problems and Prospects for Grain Legume Breeding
 
Creator Nene, Y L
Moss, J P
Gowda, C L L
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Grain legumes are an important source of nutrition, and contribute a
substantial part of dietary protein in many parts of the world. Groundnut (mm eaL. ) is also an important source of edible oil.
There are large differences in yield per unit area, wen ten-fold
increases, between different locations, and between experimental plots and
farmer's fields. Reduced yields are due to a range of factors, primarily
climatic, edaphic and biotic. Amg the major yield reducers are pests and
diseases, drought, and adverse soil conditions.
In addition to breeding for yield Br breeders have incorporated
resistances to pests and diseases and other yield constraints. However, tk
primary gene pool that is easily accessible to the breeder lacks many of the
charactere needed.
A range of techniques need to be amlied to grain legumes to wercane
these constraints. Wryo rescue may be sufficient where the gene can be
found in close relatives, but in many cases more sophisticated techniques are
needed.
The priorities in breeding efforts for different crops will be diaamaad.
 
Date 1989
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4552/1/CP_497.pdf
Nene, Y L and Moss, J P and Gowda, C L L (1989) Problems and Prospects for Grain Legume Breeding. In: Proceedings of the third conference of the international plant biotechnology network (IPBNet), January 8 - 12, 1989, Nairobi, Kenya.