Key message Improving crop resistance against insect pests is crucial for ensuring future
food security. Integrating genomics with modern breeding methods holds enormous …

Unravelling the genetic architecture underlying yield components and agronomic traits is
important for enhancing crop productivity. Here, a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population …

Chickpea yield is severely affected by drought stress, which is a complex quantitative trait
regulated by multiple small-effect genes. Identifying genomic regions associated with …

American bollworm Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) is a notorious pest of different
agronomical and horticultural crops. Different synthetic insecticides are recommended to …

Both intraspecific and interspecific crosses are a well‐known breeding strategies to
generate variations or assemble desirable traits in economically important plants …

The gram pod borer is a major pest of chickpea, accounting for average annual yield losses
to the tune of 40–50%. VIP3Aa, a class of insecticidal protein with different receptor binding …

Lipid Transfer Proteins (LTPs) play a crucial role in synthesizing lipid barrier polymers and
are involved in defense signaling during pest and pathogen attacks. Although LTPs are …

Plant breeding has always played a vital role in crop improvement and maintaining food
security all over the world. However, in the current scenario, where there is less control over …

Elucidation of the genetic basis of drought tolerance is vital for genomics-assisted breeding
of drought tolerant crop varieties. Here, we used genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) to identify …

The pea aphid (PA), Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris)(Hemiptera: Aphididae), can cause
complete yield loss in lentil, Lens culinaris Medik.(Fabaceae, Leguminosae), if not managed …