TY  - JOUR
N2  - In the past five decades, constant research has been directed towards yield improvement in pigeonpea resulting in the deployment of several commercially acceptable cultivars in India. Though, the genesis of hybrid technology, the biggest breakthrough, enigma of stagnant productivity still remains unsolved. To sort this productivity disparity, genomic research along with conventional breeding was successfully initiated at ICRISAT. It endowed ample genomic resource providing insight in the pigeonpea genome combating production constraints in a precise and speedy manner. The availability of the draft genome sequence with a large?scale marker resource, oriented the research towards trait mapping for flowering time, determinacy, fertility restoration, yield attributing traits and photo?insensitivity. Defined core and mini?core collection, still eased the pigeonpea breeding being accessible for existing genetic diversity and developing stress resistance. Modern genomic tools like next?generation sequencing, genome?wide selection helping in the appraisal of selection efficiency is leading towards next?generation breeding, an awaited milestone in pigeonpea genetic enhancement. This paper emphasizes the ongoing genetic improvement in pigeonpea with an amalgam of conventional breeding as well as genomic research.
N1  - Our sincere thanks to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for Tropical
Legumes II project and USAID project for supporting crop improvement
programme in pigeonpea in Asia and Africa.
AV  - public
KW  - Nextgeneration breeding
KW  -  genomic research
KW  -  genetic diversity
KW  -  pigeonpea genomic studies
KW  -  pigeonpea
KW  -  
genomic intervention
KW  -  determinacy
KW  -  genome sequence
KW  -  hybrid technology
KW  -  mini-core collection
KW  -  photo-insensitivity
KW  - 
pigeonpea
KW  -  trait mapping
A1  - Sameer Kumar, C V
A1  - Ganga Rao, N V P R
A1  - Saxena, R K
A1  - Saxena, K B
A1  - Upadhyaya, H D
A1  - Siambi, M
A1  - Silim, S N
A1  - Reddy, K N
A1  - Hingane, A J
A1  - Sharma, M
A1  - Sharma, S
A1  - Lyimo, S D
A1  - Ubwe, R
A1  - Makenge, M
A1  - Gad, K
A1  - Kimurto, P K
A1  - Amane, M
A1  - Kanenga, K
A1  - Obong, Y
A1  - Monyo, E
A1  - Ojiewo, C O
A1  - Mallela Venkata, N K
A1  - Polineni Rao, J
A1  - Lakkireddy, P
A1  - Chourat, S
A1  - Singh, I
A1  - Sajja, S
A1  - Beliappa, S H
A1  - Varshney, R K
TI  - Pigeonpea improvement: An amalgam of breeding and genomic research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbr.12656
JF  - Plant Breeding (TSI)
SP  - 1
Y1  - 2019/08//
ID  - icrisat10969
EP  - 10
SN  - 01799541
PB  - Wiley
ER  -