Orphan legumes: harnessing their potential for food, nutritional and health security through genetic approaches

SK Chongtham, EL Devi, K Samantara, JK Yasin… - Planta, 2022 - Springer
Legumes, being angiosperm's third-largest family as well as the second major crop family,
contributes beyond 33% of human dietary proteins. The advent of the global food crisis …

Changes in epigenetic features in legumes under abiotic stresses

WS Yung, C Huang, MW Li, HM Lam - The Plant Genome, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Legume crops are rich in nutritional value for human and livestock consumption. With global
climate change, developing stress‐resilient crops is crucial for ensuring global food security …

Integrative small RNA and transcriptome analysis provides insight into key role of miR408 towards drought tolerance response in cowpea

S Mishra, G Sahu, BP Shaw - Plant Cell Reports, 2022 - Springer
Key message Drought stress response studies and overexpression of vun-miR408 proved it
to be essential for abiotic stress tolerance in cowpea. Abstract Small RNA and transcriptome …

[HTML][HTML] Multimeric Association of Purified Novel Bowman-Birk Inhibitor From the Medicinal Forage Legume Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC.

JK Lone, MA Lekha, RP Bharadwaj, F Ali… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A Bowman-Birk protease, ie, Mucuna pruriens trypsin inhibitor (MPTI), was purified from the
seeds by 55.702-fold and revealed a single trypsin inhibitor on a zymogram with a specific …

Navigating Through Harsh Conditions: Coordinated Networks of Plant Adaptation to Abiotic Stress

S Shakespear, M Sivaji, V Kumar… - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2024 - Springer
Plants, being immobile, are vulnerable to a variety of environmental challenges, including
abiotic stresses such as high temperatures, low temperatures, flooding, drought, heavy …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive in silico analysis of the underutilized crop tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) genome reveals drought tolerance signatures

A Bekele-Alemu, A Ligaba-Osena - BMC plant biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Tef (Eragrostis tef) is a C4 plant known for its tiny, nutritious, and gluten-
free grains. It contains higher levels of protein, vitamins, and essential minerals like calcium …

[HTML][HTML] In silico identification of miRNAs and their targets in Cluster Bean for their role in development and physiological responses

V Chaudhary, S Jangra, NR Yadav - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cluster bean popularly known as “guar” is a drought-tolerant, annual legume that has
recently emerged as an economically important crop, owing to its high protein and gum …

Physical map of lncRNAs and lincRNAs linked with stress responsive miRs and genes network of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.)

JK Yasin, BK Mishra, M Arumugam Pillai… - Journal of Plant …, 2022 - Springer
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.) is one of economically significant comestible legume crop
possessing huge agricultural as well as therapeutic value. Though many reports have been …

[PDF][PDF] Functional role of miRNAs: key players in soybean improvement

K Gupta, SK Mishra, S Gupta, S Pandey, J Panigrahi… - Phyton, 2021 - academia.edu
ABSTRACT Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr) is an agro-economic crop growing across the
world to cater nutrition for both human and animal feed due to the high oil and protein …

Horse gram, an underutilized climate-resilient legume: Breeding and genomic approach for improving future genetic gain

UC Jha, H Nayyar, SK Parida… - … climate resilient grain and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc.) is an underutilized multipurpose
legume crop with inherent biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, high seed protein, dietary fiber …