Exciting journey of 10 years from genomes to fields and markets: Some success stories of genomics-assisted breeding in chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut.

Abstract excerpt

Legume crops such as chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut, mostly grown in marginal environments, are the major source of nutrition and protein to the human population in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. These crops, however, have a low productivity, mainly due to their exposure to several biotic and abiotic stresses in the marginal environments. Until 2005, these crops had limited genomics resources and molecular...

Topics

• Arachis
• Biomass
• Cajanus
• Cicer
• Crops, Agricultural
• Genome, Plant
• Genomics
• High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
• Plant Breeding
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide