eprintid: 9413
rev_number: 12
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datestamp: 2016-04-06 08:41:15
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creators_name: Gowda, C L L
creators_name: Chaturvedi, S K
creators_name: Gaur, P M
creators_name: Sameer Kumar, C V
creators_name: Jukanti, A K
icrisatcreators_name: Gowda, C L L
icrisatcreators_name: Gaur, P M
icrisatcreators_name: Sameer Kumar, C V
affiliation: GRSV Consulting Services (India)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
affiliation: IIPR (Kanpur)
affiliation: Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI) (Jodhpur)
title: Pulses research and development strategies for India
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.10
subjects: s2.17
full_text_status: public
keywords: Pulses, India, Pulses research
abstract: The world population is projected to grow from the current ~7.3 billion (in 2015) to ~8.9 billion by 2050 (United Nations Report 2004). Therefore, increasing food production to provide food and nutritional security is a challenge. Food and nutritional security becomes all the more important with the certainty of climate change scenario and ever increasing human population. These twin challenges can be addressed to by diversifying the global cropping pattern and by promoting food/grain legume crops, generally called Pulses in India. Legumes include ~750 genera and ~18000 species (Graham and Vance 2003; Polhill et al. 1981). The Legume family consists of important food grain, oilseed, forage, and agroforestry species. The domestication of legumes by humans dates back to Neolithic times. Chickpea (Cicerarietinum) is one of the seven Neolithic founder crops of the near East (Lev-Yadun et al. 2000). Some of the earliest domesticated legumes include: lentil (Lens culinaris; ~9000 yrs; Cohen 1977),beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and soybean (Glycine max; ~3000 year;Hymowitzand Singh, 1987; Kaplan and Lynch, 1999). Legumes form an important part of human daily diet especially in several developing and some developed countries and therefore sometimes legumes are considered as poor man’s meat...
date: 2015
date_type: published
publisher: Commodity India
place_of_pub: Bangalore
pagerange: 17-33
pages: 113
refereed: TRUE
book_title: Pulses Handbook 2015
official_url: http://www.commodityindia.com/mailer/Pulses_handbook_2015_EBook.pdf
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related_url_type: pub
citation:   Gowda, C L L and Chaturvedi, S K and Gaur, P M and Sameer Kumar, C V and Jukanti, A K  (2015) Pulses research and development strategies for India.   In:  Pulses Handbook 2015.   Commodity India, Bangalore, pp. 17-33.      
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/9413/1/Pulses%20Res%20and%20Dev-CLLG.pdf