The Chickpea Genome

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Varshney, Rajeev K. (Editor), Thudi, Mahendar (Editor), Muehlbauer, Fred (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Compendium of Plant Genomes,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Genetics and Genomics.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

This book sheds new light on the chickpea genome sequencing and resequencing of chickpea germplasm lines and provides insights into classical genetics, cytogenetics, and trait mapping. It also offers an overview of the latest advances in genome sequencing and analysis. The growing human population,...

Table of Contents:

• The Chickpea Genome: An Introduction
• Economic importance of chickpea: production, value and world trade
• Botany of chickpea
• Cytogenetics of Cicer
• Managing and Discovering Agronomically Beneficial Traits in Chickpea Germplasm Collections
• Advances in chickpea genomic resources for accelerating the crop improvement
• Classical genetics and gene mapping
• Genetic mapping and quantitative trait loci
• Requirement of whole-genome sequencing and background history of the national and international genome initiatives
• Sequencing the Chickpea Genome
• Impact of Genomics on Chickpea Breeding
• Future Prospects for Chickpea Research.