Broadening the Genetic Base of Grain Legumes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Singh, Mohar (Editor), Bisht, Ishwari Singh (Editor), Dutta, Manoranjan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant genetics.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.

Grain legumes play significant and diverse role in the farming systems and provide nutrition security to the largely vegetarian and relatively poorer people around the world. These are ideal crops for achieving three simultaneous developmental goals viz. reducing poverty, improving human health and...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Common bean
• 3. Chickpea
• 4. Faba bean
• 5. Cowpea
• 6. Lentil
• 7. Pigeonpea
• 8. Groundnut
• 9. Vigna species 10. Horsegram.