The Chickpea Genome

Description

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, rapid climate changes and limited amounts of arable land are creating substantial challenges in connection with the availability and affordability of nutritious food for smallholder farmers in developing countries. In this context, climate smart crops are essential to alleviating the hunger of the millions of poor and undernourished people living in developing countries. In addition to cereals, grain legumes are an integral part of the human diet and provide sustainable income for smallholder farmers in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Among grain legumes, the chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is the second most important in terms of production and productivity. Besides being a rich source of proteins, it can fix atmospheric nitrogen through symbiosis with rhizobia and increase the input of combined nitrogen. Several abiotic stresses like drought, heat, salinity, together with biotic stresses like Fusarium wilt, Ascochyta blight, and Botrytis grey mould have led to production losses, as the chickpeas is typically grown in the harsh climates of our planet’s semi-arid regions. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii The Chickpea Genome: An Introduction (Rajeev K. Varshney, Mahendar Thudi, Fred J. Muehlbauer)....Pages 1-4 Economic Importance of Chickpea: Production, Value, and World Trade (Fred J. Muehlbauer, Ashutosh Sarker)....Pages 5-12 Botany of Chickpea (Sobhan B. Sajja, Srinivasan Samineni, Pooran M. Gaur)....Pages 13-24 Cytogenetics of Cicer (Miroslava Karafiátová, Eva Hřibová, Jaroslav Doležel)....Pages 25-41 Managing and Discovering Agronomically Beneficial Traits in Chickpea Germplasm Collections (Hari D. Upadhyaya, Sangam L. Dwivedi, Shivali Sharma)....Pages 43-52 Advances in Chickpea Genomic Resources for Accelerating the Crop Improvement (Manish Roorkiwal, Ankit Jain, Mahendar Thudi, Rajeev K. Varshney)....Pages 53-67 Classical Genetics and Gene Mapping (Amit Deokar, Bunyamin Tar’an)....Pages 69-81 Genetic Mapping and Quantitative Trait Loci (T. Millán, E. Madrid, P. Castro, J. Gil, J. Rubio)....Pages 83-106 Requirement of Whole-Genome Sequencing and Background History of the National and International Genome Initiatives (Mahendar Thudi, Rajeev K. Varshney)....Pages 107-115 Sequencing the Chickpea Genome (Aamir Waseem Khan, Mahendar Thudi, Rajeev K. Varshney, David Edwards)....Pages 117-123 Impact of Genomics on Chickpea Breeding (Srinivasan Samineni, Mahendar Thudi, Sobhan B. Sajja, Rajeev K. Varshney, Pooran M. Gaur)....Pages 125-134 Future Prospects for Chickpea Research (Rajeev K. Varshney, Mahendar Thudi, Fred J. Muehlbauer)....Pages 135-142