TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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 ?x 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.
ED  - Varshney, R K
ED  - Thudi, M
ED  - Muehlbauer, F J
N1  - Series editor: Chittaranjan Kole
Raja Ramanna Fellow,
Department of Atomic Energy Government of India
Kalyani, India
AV  - restricted
KW  - Agriculture
KW  -  Semi-arid regions
KW  -  Crop improvement
KW  -  Germplasm
KW  -  Legumes nutrition
KW  -  Protein food sources
KW  -  Sequencing technologies
KW  -  Chickpea genome sequencing
KW  -  Resequencing
KW  -  chickpea germplasm lines
KW  -  classical genetics
KW  -  cytogenetics
KW  -  and trait mapping
KW  -  Grain legumes
KW  -  Climate smart crops
KW  -  Undernourished people
KW  -  Hunger
KW  -  Smallholder farmers
KW  -  Nutritious food
KW  -  Plant Genomes
T3  - Compendium of Plant Genomes
A1  - Varshney, R K
A1  - Thudi, M
A1  - Muehlbauer, F J
TI  - The Chickpea Genome
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66117-9
Y1  - 2017///
ID  - icrisat10433
EP  - 142
SN  - 978-3-319-66115-5
PB  - Springer International Publishing
ER  -