BookChittaranjan Kole, editor.
Summary: This book describes the concepts, strategies and techniques for pulse-crop improvement in the era of climate change, highlighting the latest advances in plant molecular mapping and genome sequencing. Genetic mapping of genes and QTLs has broadened the scope of marker-assisted breeding and map-based cloning in almost all major pulse crops. Genetic transformation, particularly using alien genes conferring resistance to herbicide, insects and diseases has facilitated the development of a huge number of genetically modified varieties of the major pulse crops. Since the genome sequencing of rice in 2002, genomes of over 7 pulse crops have been sequenced. This has resulted in the possibility of deciphering the exact nucleotide sequence and chromosomal positions of agroeconomic genes. Most importantly, comparative genomics and genotyping-by-sequencing has opened up a new vista for exploring wild crop relatives for identification of useful donor genes.
Contents:
Common bean
Pigeonpea Genomic interventions to improve resilience of pigeonpea in changing climate
Chickpea Breeding and genomic approaches for sustaining chickpea yield under changing climate
Lentil Towards climate resilient lentils-advances in abiotic and biotic stress resistance
MungbeanGenomic perspectives towards development of climate-smart mungbean: Perspective and future
Pea Title: Pea and Climate Change: Possibilities of Adaptation through Genomic Selection and Breeding
Faba Bean Genomics-aided breeding for CS traits in Faba bean
Bambara Groundnut: An old crop for the climate change era
Lathyrus "Grass pea: Remodelling an ancient insurance crop for the 21st century."