Legumes are an excellent source of proteins and health‐promoting phytochemicals.
Recognizing their importance in human nutrition and sustainable agricultural production …

Most of the lentil growing countries face a certain set of abiotic and biotic stresses causing
substantial reduction in crop growth, yield, and production. Until-to date, lentil breeders have …

Abstract Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik. ssp. culinaris) is one of the oldest cultivated plants that
originated from L. culinaris Medik. ssp. orientalis in the Near East arc and Asia Minor. This …

Lentil, an important cool season food legume, is a rich source of easily digestible protein,
folic acid, bio-available iron, and zinc nutrients. Lentil grows mainly as a sole crop in the …

Climate change has threatened global food security. There is an unrelenting need to
understand various factors associated with abiotic stress and their response, adaptability …

An efficient and simple procedure for inducing high frequency direct shoot organogenesis
and somatic embryogenesis in lentil from cotyledonary node explants (without both the …

Lentil is a diploid (2n= 2X= 14) self-pollinating crop with a genome size of 4 Gbp. The use of
genomics tools in lentil breeding programs has been limited, since available genomic …

Lentil is an ancient legume crop cultivated thousands of years for its nutritious seeds, its
ability to improve soil colonized by nitrogen fixing symbiotic bacteria, and providing income …

Lentil among legumes has a significant place in crop production and rotation, and the
nutritional security of growing human population. Current lentil cultivars have a narrow …

The regeneration and transformation protocol for lentil employing both sonication and
vacuum infiltration of whole seed explants is described. This protocol overcomes the non …