eprintid: 10433 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 1305 dir: disk0/00/01/04/33 datestamp: 2018-02-23 04:44:53 lastmod: 2018-02-23 05:40:36 status_changed: 2018-02-23 04:44:53 type: book metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Varshney, R K creators_name: Thudi, M creators_name: Muehlbauer, F J icrisatcreators_name: Varshney, R K icrisatcreators_name: Thudi, M affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru) affiliation: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington State University (Pullman) country: India country: USA title: The Chickpea Genome ispublished: pub subjects: A1 subjects: PG2 subjects: PLB1 subjects: SM1 subjects: n144 subjects: s1.1 subjects: s10 subjects: s2.10 subjects: s2.13 subjects: s2.8 subjects: s26 subjects: s3000 subjects: s355 divisions: CRPS3 full_text_status: restricted keywords: Agriculture, Semi-arid regions, Crop improvement, Germplasm, Legumes nutrition, Protein food sources, Sequencing technologies, Chickpea genome sequencing, Resequencing, chickpea germplasm lines, classical genetics, cytogenetics, and trait mapping, Grain legumes, Climate smart crops, Undernourished people, Hunger, Smallholder farmers, Nutritious food, Plant Genomes note: Series editor: Chittaranjan Kole Raja Ramanna Fellow, Department of Atomic Energy Government of India Kalyani, India abstract: 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. date: 2017 date_type: published series: Compendium of Plant Genomes publisher: Springer International Publishing pages: 142 id_number: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66117-9 refereed: TRUE isbn: 978-3-319-66115-5 issn: 2199-4781 book_title: The Chickpea Genome editors_name: Varshney, R K editors_name: Thudi, M editors_name: Muehlbauer, F J official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66117-9 related_url_url: https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2018&q=The+Chickpea+Genome+Rajeev+K.+Varshney&oq=The+Chickpea+Genome related_url_type: pub citation: Varshney, R K and Thudi, M and Muehlbauer, F J (2017) The Chickpea Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes . Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-66115-5 document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10433/1/The%20Chickpea%20Genome-Springer%20International%20Publishing%20%282017%29.pdf