Key message Integration of genomic technologies with breeding efforts have been used in
recent years for chickpea improvement. Modern breeding along with low cost genotyping …

Chickpea is the third most important grain legume grown in the arid and semi-arid regions of
the world. In spite of vast germplasm accessions available in different genebanks, there has …

The major abiotic and biotic stresses that adversely affect yield of chickpea (Cicer arietinum
L.) include drought, heat, fusarium wilt, ascochyta blight and pod borer. Excellent progress …

Chickpea is a cool season grain legume of exceptionally high nutritive value and most
versatile food use. It is mostly grown under rain fed conditions in arid and semi-arid areas …

The genome-wide discovery and high-throughput genotyping of SNPs in chickpea natural
germplasm lines is indispensable to extrapolate their natural allelic diversity, domestication …

Chickpea is an important grain legume of the semi arid tropics and warm temperate zones,
and forms one of the major components of human diet. However, a narrow genetic base of …

The transcriptome of cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), an important crop legume, has
recently been sequenced. Here, we report sequencing of the transcriptome of wild chickpea …

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 …

Chickpea is one of the most important food legumes that holds the key to meet rising global
food and nutritional demand. In order to deploy molecular breeding approaches in crop …

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the third most economically important food legume in the
world. Its yield potential is often limited by various biotic stresses, including fungal and viral …