relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/10774/
title: Genetic Resources: From Mendel’s peas to underutilized legume species
creator: Ortiz, R
creator: Upadhyaya, H D
subject: Cowpea
subject: Chickpea
subject: Genetics and Genomics
subject: Legume Crops
description: Plant domestication is evolution in  a human-made environment. A diversity  “bottleneck” changed the sample of genes  passing from one generation to another.  Today’s crops depend on humans for habitat  and propagation because some of desired  traits are often maladaptive in nature.  Legume genetic resources (wild species,  landraces, cultivars, breeding lines,  segregating populations, genetic stocks and  mutants) are most often used for studying  genetic diversity, agro-morphological and  nutritional quality traits, and host plant  resistance to pathogens and insect pests.  They also offer means for understanding  plant domestication. Their diversity also  shows a great potential for improving crops.  Advances in omics are providing new  knowledge for using this germplasm diversity  in legume genetic enhancement.
date: 2017-09
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/10774/1/Slide%201.pdf
identifier:   Ortiz, R and Upadhyaya, H D  (2017) Genetic Resources: From Mendel’s peas to underutilized legume species.  Legume Perspectives, 14.  pp. 15-17.