Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Legumes: Volume 7

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This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals. This is Vol 7, subtitled Legumes, focuses on advances in breeding strategies using both traditional and modern approaches for the improvement of individual legume crops. Included in this volume are Adzuki bean, Black gram, Chickpea Cluster bean, Common bean, Cowpea, Faba bean, Hyacinth bean, Lentil, Mung bean, Pigeonpea and Soybean. This volume is contributed by 57 internationally reputable scientists from 9 countries. Each chapter comprehensively reviews the modern literature on the subject and reflects the authors own experience. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Adzuki Bean (Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & Ohashi) Breeding (Lixia Wang, Jie Wang, Xuzhen Cheng)....Pages 1-23 Recent Advances in Breeding, Marker Assisted Selection and Genomics of Black Gram (Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper) (Farrukh Azeem, Muhammad Junaid Bilal, Usman Ijaz, Muhammad Zubair, Ijaz Rasul, Muhammad Jawad Asghar et al.)....Pages 25-52 Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Cytogenetics, Genetic Diversity and Breeding (Aamir Raina, Samiullah Khan, Mohammad Rafiq Wani, Rafiul Amin Laskar, Waseem Mushtaq)....Pages 53-112 Cluster Bean [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub] Breeding (Aravind Kumar Jukanti, Rakesh Pathak, Chiranjeevi Mushyam)....Pages 113-149 Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Breeding (Oswalt R. Jiménez)....Pages 151-200 Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] Breeding (Ousmane Boukar, Abou Togola, Siva Chamarthi, Nouhoun Belko, Haruki Ishikawa, Kanako Suzuki et al.)....Pages 201-243 Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) Breeding (Xuxiao Zong, Tao Yang, Rong Liu)....Pages 245-286 Hyacinth Bean (Lablab purpureus L. Sweet): Genetics, Breeding and Genomics (Panichayil V. Vaijayanthi, Chandrakant, Sampangi Ramesh)....Pages 287-318 Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) Diversity, Cytogenetics and Breeding (Rafiul Amin Laskar, Samiullah Khan, Chitta Ranjan Deb, Nasya Tomlekova, Mohammad Rafiq Wani, Aamir Raina et al.)....Pages 319-369 Mung Bean (Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek) Breeding (Jungmin Ha, Suk-Ha Lee)....Pages 371-407 Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.): An Ideal Crop for Sustainable Agriculture (Rachit K. Saxena, K. B. Saxena, Rajeev K. Varshney)....Pages 409-429 Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] Breeding: History, Improvement, Production and Future Opportunities (Edwin J. Anderson, Md Liakat Ali, William D. Beavis, Pengyin Chen, Tom Elmo Clemente, Brian W. Diers et al.)....Pages 431-516 Back Matter ....Pages 517-522