Advances in Chickpea Genomic Resources for Accelerating the Crop Improvement

Roorkiwal, M and Jain, A and Thudi, M and Varshney, R K (2017) Advances in Chickpea Genomic Resources for Accelerating the Crop Improvement. In: The Chickpea Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes book series (CPG) . Springer, pp. 53-67. ISBN 978-3-319-66115-5

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Abstract

Chickpea plays a major role in food and nutritional security worldwide. Its productivity is severely affected by various biotic and abiotic stresses; hence development of stress resilience varieties that can yield higher under stress environment remains the call of the hour. Conventional breeding approaches clubbed with the genome information, commonly known as genomic-assisted breeding (GAB) have the potential to accelerate the crop improvement efforts. In order to deploy the GAB for crop improvement in chickpea, there was need to convert an orphan crop chickpea into the genomic resource-rich crop. Advent of sequencing technology has resulted in reduction of cost and led to development of huge genomic resources in chickpea. A variety of markers have been developed, used for various mapping studies including linkage mapping and association mapping and finally deployed for developing the superior varieties using GAB approached such as marker assisted backcrossing and genomic selection. The chapter reviews the journey of chickpea status from orphan crop with almost no marker resources to a genome resource-rich crop, which are being used for achieving the genetic gains at a momentum.

Item Type:	Book Section
Divisions:	Research Program : Genetic Gains
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Series Name:	Compendium of Plant Genomes book series (CPG)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Chickpea, crop improvement, genomic resources, mapping studies, linkage mapping and association mapping, genomic selection, genetic gains, molecular breeding, genetic maps, trait mapping, draft genome sequence
Subjects:	Others > Crop Improvement Mandate crops > Chickpea Others > Genetics and Genomics
Depositing User:	Mr Ramesh K
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2018 07:06
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2018 08:43
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/10475
Acknowledgement:	UNSPECIFIED
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