Genomic resources in plant breeding for sustainable agriculture

M Thudi, R Palakurthi, JC Schnable… - Journal of Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Developing climate-resilient chickpea involving physiological and molecular approaches with a focus on temperature and drought stresses

A Rani, P Devi, UC Jha, KD Sharma… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Chickpea is one of the most economically important food legumes, and a significant source
of proteins. It is cultivated in more than 50 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia …

A reference genome for pea provides insight into legume genome evolution

J Kreplak, MA Madoui, P Cápal, P Novák, K Labadie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report the first annotated chromosome-level reference genome assembly for pea, Gregor
Mendel's original genetic model. Phylogenetics and paleogenomics show genomic …

Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization–diploidization cycles in plants

X Qiao, Q Li, H Yin, K Qi, L Li, R Wang, S Zhang… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

Prospects and potentials of underutilized leafy Amaranths as vegetable use for health-promotion

U Sarker, YP Lin, S Oba, Y Yoshioka… - Plant Physiology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change causes environmental variation worldwide, which is one of the most serious
threats to global food security. In addition, more than 2 billion people in the world are …

Orphan crops: their importance and the urgency of improvement

Z Tadele - Planta, 2019 - Springer
Main conclusion Due to significant contributions of orphan crops in the economy of the
developing world, scientific studies need to be promoted on these little researched but vital …

Emerging genomic tools for legume breeding: current status and future prospects

MK Pandey, M Roorkiwal, VK Singh… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Legumes play a vital role in ensuring global nutritional food security and improving soil
quality through nitrogen fixation. Accelerated higher genetic gains is required to meet the …

Genetic diversity and genomic strategies for improving drought and waterlogging tolerance in soybeans

B Valliyodan, H Ye, L Song, MK Murphy… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Drought and its interaction with high temperature are the major abiotic stress factors
affecting soybean yield and production stability. Ongoing climate changes are anticipated to …

Potential and limits of exploitation of crop wild relatives for pea, lentil, and chickpea improvement

CJ Coyne, S Kumar, EJB von Wettberg… - Legume …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Legumes represent the second most important family of crop plants after grasses,
accounting for approximately 27% of the world's crop production. Past domestication …

Investigating drought tolerance in chickpea using genome-wide association mapping and genomic selection based on whole-genome resequencing data

Y Li, P Ruperao, J Batley, D Edwards, T Khan… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Drought tolerance is a complex trait that involves numerous genes. Identifying key causal
genes or linked molecular markers can facilitate the fast development of drought tolerant …