Genomic Designing of Climate-Smart Pulse Crops

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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 cloning in almost all major pulse crops. Genetic transformation, particularly using alien genes conferring resistance to herbicide, insects and diseases has facilitated the development of a huge number of genetically modified varieties of the major pulse crops. Since the genome sequencing of rice in 2002, genomes of over 7 pulse crops have been sequenced. This has resulted in the possibility of deciphering the exact nucleotide sequence and chromosomal positions of agroeconomic genes. Most importantly, comparative genomics and genotyping-by-sequencing has opened up a new vista for exploring wild crop relatives for identification of useful donor genes. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Common Bean Genetics, Breeding, and Genomics for Adaptation to Changing to New Agri-environmental Conditions (A. M. De Ron, V. (K.) Kalavacharla, S. Álvarez-García, P. A. Casquero, G. Carro-Huelga, S. Gutiérrez et al.)....Pages 1-106 Genomic Interventions to Improve Resilience of Pigeonpea in Changing Climate (Abhishek Bohra, Shalini Pareek, Mitchell Jones, Uday C. Jha, SJ Satheesh Naik, Mayank Kaashyap et al.)....Pages 107-134 Breeding and Genomics Approaches for Improving Productivity Gains in Chickpea Under Changing Climate (Uday C. Jha, Abhishek Bohra, Harsh Nayyar, Anju Rani, Poonam Devi, Parasappa Rajappa Saabale et al.)....Pages 135-164 Toward Climate-Resilient Lentils: Challenges and Opportunities (Dorin Gupta, Rama Harinath Reddy Dadu, Prabhakaran Sambasivam, Ido Bar, Mohar Singh, Navya beera et al.)....Pages 165-234 Towards Development of Climate Smart Mungbean: Challenges and Opportunities (Aditya Pratap, Sanjeev Gupta, P. S. Basu, Rakhi Tomar, Sonali Dubey, Meenal Rathore et al.)....Pages 235-264 Genomic Designing for Climate-Smart Pea (Xuxiao Zong, Tao Yang, Rong Liu, Zhendong Zhu, Huijie Zhang, Ling Li et al.)....Pages 265-358 Genomics-Aided Breeding for Climate-Smart Traits in Faba Bean (Ahmed Sallam, Sami Ul-Allah)....Pages 359-395 Bambara Groundnut (Vigna Subterranea (L) Verdc)—A Climate Smart Crop for Food and Nutrition Security (Sean Mayes, Wai Kuan Ho, Hui Hui Chai, Bo Song, Yue Chang, Festo Massawe)....Pages 397-424 Grass Pea: Remodeling an Ancient Insurance Crop for Climate Resilience (Abhimanyu Sarkar, Peter M. F. Emmrich, Ashutosh Sarker, Xuxiao Zong, Cathie Martin, Trevor L. Wang)....Pages 425-469