relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/17/
title: Genomics and Physiological Approaches  for Root Trait Breeding to Improve Drought  Tolerance in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
creator: Varshney, R K
creator: Pazhamala, L T
creator: Kashiwagi, J
creator: Gaur, P M
creator: Krishnamurthy, L
creator: Hoisington, D A
subject: Chickpea
description: Chickpea ranks third among pulses, fifth among grain legumes, and 15th among  grain crops of the world. In 2006, the world chickpea cultivation area was 10.7 Mha  with over 8 Mha grown in India, Pakistan, and Iran, with a further 1 Mha grown in  other countries of Asia, the Middle East, and Canada. Total production was 8.4 Mt,  and the average yield was 772 kg/ha (FAOSTAT 2006). Although chickpea is  cultivated in about 50 countries, 95% of its area is in the developing countries  where South Asia alone covers almost 71% of the world chickpea harvested area.  Most of the chickpea harvested is consumed locally and the global trade is about  12% of the total production. The global demand for chickpea is projected to be  11.1 Mt in 2010. Under optimum growing conditions, the yield potential of  chickpea is 6 t/ha (Singh 1987), which is much higher than the current global  yield average of ~0.8 t/ha (Ahmad et al. 2005).
publisher: Springer
contributor: de Oliveira, Antonio Costa
contributor: Varshney, R K
date: 2011
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/17/1/rkv-bookchapt.pdf
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/17/5/Varshney.Pl__Genomics_2011.pdf
identifier:   Varshney, R K and Pazhamala, L T and Kashiwagi, J and Gaur, P M and Krishnamurthy, L and Hoisington, D A  (2011) Genomics and Physiological Approaches for Root Trait Breeding to Improve Drought Tolerance in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.).   In:  Root Genomics.   Springer, Germany, pp. 233-250.  ISBN 9783540855453     
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85546-0_10