TY  - JOUR
N2  - Pigeonpea is an important food legume crop of semi-arid tropical regions. Plateauing
of pigeonpea yield has been worrying breeders for the past 6?7 decades. Serious
breeding efforts made during this period resulted in various high-yielding and disease
resistant cultivars. However, the gains in pigeonpea productivity have been modest.
The authors, while reviewing this situation, conclude that long generation turnover,
complexity of biological traits, low selection response and overreliance upon
pedigree breeding present the key bottlenecks for this situation. In this paper, some
alternative breeding approaches and technologies are suggested for the genetic enhancement
of yield stability and stress response of pigeonpea.
N1  - AB is grateful to CRP on Hybrid Technology scheme of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi.
AV  - public
KW  - Biological constraints
KW  -  Genomic selection
KW  -  Hybrids
KW  -  Pedigree breeding
KW  -  Speed breeding
KW  -  Sybrid
A1  - Saxena, K
A1  - Bohra, A
A1  - Choudhary, A K
A1  - Sultana, R
A1  - Sharma, M
A1  - Pazhamala, L T
A1  - Saxena, R K
A1  - Xu, P
TI  - The alternative breeding approaches for improving yield gains and stress response in pigeonpea ( Cajanus cajan )
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.12863
JF  - Plant Breeding (TSI)
SP  - 1
Y1  - 2020/08//
ID  - icrisat11651
EP  - 12
SN  - 0179-9541
PB  - Wiley
ER  -