Achievements and challenges in legume breeding for pest and disease resistance

D Rubiales, S Fondevilla, W Chen… - Critical Reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Yield stability of legume crops is constrained by a number of pest and diseases. Major
diseases are rusts, powdery and downy mildews, ascochyta blights, botrytis gray molds …

Drought Stress in Lentil (Lens culinaris, Medik) and Approaches for Its Management

A Zeroual, A Baidani, O Idrissi - Horticulturae, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lentil plays an important role for food and nutritional security. It is a sustainable source of
protein, zinc, iron, prebiotic carbohydrates, and diverse health-promoting nutrients. This crop …

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) Diversity, Cytogenetics and Breeding

RA Laskar, S Khan, CR Deb, N Tomlekova… - Advances in Plant …, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Conventional and new-breeding technologies for improving disease resistance in lentil (Lens culinaris Medik)

A Roy, PK Sahu, C Das, S Bhattacharyya… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
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 …

In vitro tissue culture in breeding programs of leguminous pulses: use and current status

I Gatti, F Guindón, C Bermejo, A Espósito… - Plant Cell, Tissue and …, 2016 - Springer
Legumes represent a vast family of plants including more than 600 genera and more than
13,000 species. Among them, the term “pulses” refers only to dried seed crops, excluding …

Speed breeding in pulses: an opportunity to improve the efficiency of breeding programs

F Cazzola, CJ Bermejo, I Gatti… - Crop and Pasture …, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
Pulses form an important component of the human diet, provide animal feed, and replenish
soil fertility through biological nitrogen fixation. However, pulse breeding is a time …

Current status of haploidization in cool-season grain legume crop species

W Skrzypkowski, A Kiełkowska - Agriculture, 2024 - mdpi.com
Doubled haploid technology is, so far, the fastest route to induce a true homozygous state in
plants. True homozygous plants are particularly important for breeders, as they can facilitate …

Exploring the potential of in vitro tissue culture in breeding programs of legume and pulse crops: utilization and present condition

A Abbas, AU Rehman, MM Javed - Bulletin of Biological and Allied …, 2021 - bbasr.org
Legumes are an important family of flowering plants, comprising more than 13,000 species
and 600 genera. The term" pulses" refers to dried seed crops cultivated for food, rather than …

Induction of multiple shoots in Oryza sativa: roles of thidiazuron, 6-benzylaminopurine, decapitation, flooding, and Ethrel® treatments

A Nautiyal, A Rashid, A Agnihotri - In Vitro Cellular & Developmental …, 2022 - Springer
The impact of different concentrations of thidiazuron (TDZ) and 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP)
and the role of decapitation, flooding, and Ethrel® treatments were evaluated on direct in …

Induction of direct shoot organogenesis and in vitro flowering from shoot tip explants of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. cv. 'Green long')

P Sangeetha, P Venkatachalam - In Vitro Cellular & Developmental …, 2014 - Springer
In vitro flowering is an alternative breeding tool for generating hybrid Cucumis spp. as it is
able to overcome limitations caused by interspecific incompatibility. The present study …