Economically, legumes (Fabaceae) represent the second most important family of crop
plants after the grass family, Poaceae. Grain legumes account for 27% of world crop …

Advances in next-generation sequencing and genotyping technologies have enabled
generation of large-scale genomic resources such as molecular markers, transcript reads …

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 narrow genetic base of cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) has hindered the
progress in realizing high genetic gains in chickpea breeding programs. Moreover, different …

Like many other major crops, ICRISAT's mandate grain legume crops have a narrow genetic
base. The production and productivity of these crops is adversely affected by different biotic …

The study was aimed to select cold tolerant accessions of annual wild Cicer species in the
highlands in the west Mediterranean area of Turkey. A total of 43 accessions of eight annual …

Chickpea, commonly called Bengal gram or Garbanzo bean, faces a productivity crisis
around the globe due to numerous biotic and abiotic stresses. The eroded genetic base of …

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a temperate, diploid, and autogamous legume species
having haploid genome size of 738 Mb. Several biotic and abiotic stresses affect the …

Many of our current agricultural crops are natural or agricultural hybrids (between two or
more species), or polyploids (containing more than one genome or set of chromosomes) …

Chickpea is an important protein-rich crop with considerable diversity present among 44
annual Cicer species. A large collection of chickpea germplasm including wild Cicer species …