Genomic Designing of Climate-Smart Pulse Crops

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kole, Chittaranjan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Plant breeding.; Climate change.; Agriculture.; Plant genetics.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Climate Change.; Plant Genetics and Genomics.

This book describes the concepts, strategies and techniques for pulse- crop improvement in the era of climate change, highlighting the latest advances in plant molecular mapping and genome sequencing. Genetic mapping of genes and QTLs has broadened the scope of marker-assisted breeding and map-based...

Table of Contents:

• Common bean
• Pigeonpea Genomic interventions to improve resilience of pigeonpea in changing climate
• Chickpea Breeding and genomic approaches for sustaining chickpea yield under changing climate
• Lentil Towards climate resilient lentils-advances in abiotic and biotic stress resistance
• MungbeanGenomic perspectives towards development of climate-smart mungbean: Perspective and future
• Pea Title: Pea and Climate Change: Possibilities of Adaptation through Genomic Selection and Breeding
• Faba Bean Genomics-aided breeding for CS traits in Faba bean
• Bambara Groundnut: An old crop for the climate change era
• Lathyrus "Grass pea: Remodelling an ancient insurance crop for the 21st century".