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 …

Genomic resources in plant breeding for sustainable agriculture

M Thudi, R Palakurthi, JC Schnable… - Journal of Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

A chickpea genetic variation map based on the sequencing of 3,366 genomes

RK Varshney, M Roorkiwal, S Sun, P Bajaj… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Zero hunger and good health could be realized by 2030 through effective conservation,
characterization and utilization of germplasm resources. So far, few chickpea (Cicer …

A reference genome for pea provides insight into legume genome evolution

J Kreplak, MA Madoui, P Cápal, P Novák, K Labadie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report the first annotated chromosome-level reference genome assembly for pea, Gregor
Mendel's original genetic model. Phylogenetics and paleogenomics show genomic …

Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization–diploidization cycles in plants

X Qiao, Q Li, H Yin, K Qi, L Li, R Wang, S Zhang… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

Pearl millet genome sequence provides a resource to improve agronomic traits in arid environments

RK Varshney, C Shi, M Thudi, C Mariac… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Pearl millet [Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone] is a staple food for more than 90 million
farmers in arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa, India and South Asia. We report …

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 …

A Ca2+-sensor switch for tolerance to elevated salt stress in Arabidopsis

L Steinhorst, G He, LK Moore, S Schültke… - Developmental Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Excessive Na+ in soils inhibits plant growth. Here, we report that Na+ stress triggers primary
calcium signals specifically in a cell group within the root differentiation zone, thus forming a" …

Pseudomonas putida attunes morphophysiological, biochemical and molecular responses in Cicer arietinum L. during drought stress and recovery

S Tiwari, C Lata, PS Chauhan, CS Nautiyal - Plant Physiology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Drought is one of the most important abiotic stresses that adversely affect plant growth and
yield potential. However, some drought resistant rhizosphere competent bacteria are known …

Genome sequence of mungbean and insights into evolution within Vigna species

YJ Kang, SK Kim, MY Kim, P Lestari, KH Kim… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Mungbean (Vigna radiata) is a fast-growing, warm-season legume crop that is primarily
cultivated in developing countries of Asia. Here we construct a draft genome sequence of …