Developing drought‐smart, ready‐to‐grow future crops

A Raza, MS Mubarik, R Sharif, M Habib… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Breeding crop plants with increased yield potential and improved tolerance to stressful
environments is critical for global food security. Drought stress (DS) adversely affects …

Research progress and perspective on drought stress in legumes: A review

M Nadeem, J Li, M Yahya, A Sher, C Ma… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate change, food shortage, water scarcity, and population growth are some of the
threatening challenges being faced in today's world. Drought stress (DS) poses a constant …

Molecular breeding and drought tolerance in chickpea

R Asati, MK Tripathi, S Tiwari, RK Yadav, N Tripathi - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cicer arietinum L. is the third greatest widely planted imperative pulse crop worldwide, and it
belongs to the Leguminosae family. Drought is the utmost common abiotic factor on plants …

Resequencing of 429 chickpea accessions from 45 countries provides insights into genome diversity, domestication and agronomic traits

RK Varshney, M Thudi, M Roorkiwal, W He… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report a map of 4.97 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the chickpea from whole-
genome resequencing of 429 lines sampled from 45 countries. We identified 122 candidate …

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 …

Low temperature stress tolerance: An insight into the omics approaches for legume crops

KA Bhat, R Mahajan, MM Pakhtoon, U Urwat… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The change in climatic conditions is the major cause for decline in crop production
worldwide. Decreasing crop productivity will further lead to increase in global hunger rate …

Enhancing climate change resilience in agricultural crops

Y Benitez-Alfonso, BK Soanes, S Zimba, B Sinanaj… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Climate change threatens global food and nutritional security through negative effects on
crop growth and agricultural productivity. Many countries have adopted ambitious climate …

Harvesting the promising fruits of genomics: applying genome sequencing technologies to crop breeding

RK Varshney, R Terauchi, SR McCouch - PLoS biology, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are being used to generate whole genome
sequences for a wide range of crop species. When combined with precise phenotyping …

Fine mapping and gene cloning in the post-NGS era: advances and prospects

D Jaganathan, A Bohra, M Thudi… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2020 - Springer
Improvement in traits of agronomic importance is the top breeding priority of crop
improvement programs. Majority of these agronomic traits show complex quantitative …

Introgression of “QTL‐hotspot” region enhances drought tolerance and grain yield in three elite chickpea cultivars

C Bharadwaj, S Tripathi, KR Soren, M Thudi… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With an aim of enhancing drought tolerance using a marker‐assisted backcrossing (MABC)
approach, we introgressed the “QTL‐hotspot” region from ICC 4958 accession that harbors …