Legume crops phylogeny and genetic diversity for science and breeding

P Smýkal, CJ Coyne, MJ Ambrose… - Critical Reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Economically, legumes (Fabaceae) represent the second most important family of crop
plants after the grass family, Poaceae. Grain legumes account for 27% of world crop …

Groundnut improvement: use of genetic and genomic tools

P Janila, SN Nigam, MK Pandey, P Nagesh… - Frontiers in plant …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), a self-pollinated legume is an important crop cultivated in
24 million ha world over for extraction of edible oil and food uses. The kernels are rich in oil …

QTL‐seq approach identified genomic regions and diagnostic markers for rust and late leaf spot resistance in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

MK Pandey, AW Khan, VK Singh… - Plant biotechnology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Rust and late leaf spot (LLS) are the two major foliar fungal diseases in groundnut, and their
co‐occurrence leads to significant yield loss in addition to the deterioration of fodder quality …

Crop wild relatives: A valuable source of tolerance to various abiotic stresses

A Kapazoglou, M Gerakari, E Lazaridi, K Kleftogianni… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Global climate change is one of the major constraints limiting plant growth, production, and
sustainability worldwide. Moreover, breeding efforts in the past years have focused on …

Marker-assisted introgression of a QTL region to improve rust resistance in three elite and popular varieties of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

RK Varshney, MK Pandey, P Janila, SN Nigam… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2014 - Springer
Key message Successful introgression of a major QTL for rust resistance, through marker-
assisted backcrossing, in three popular Indian peanut cultivars generated several promising …

A QTL study on late leaf spot and rust revealed one major QTL for molecular breeding for rust resistance in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

YP Khedikar, MVC Gowda, C Sarvamangala… - Theoretical and applied …, 2010 - Springer
Late leaf spot (LLS) and rust are two major foliar diseases of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea
L.) that often occur together leading to 50–70% yield loss in the crop. A total of 268 …

Mapping Late Leaf Spot Resistance in Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) Using QTL-seq Reveals Markers for Marker-Assisted Selection

J Clevenger, Y Chu, C Chavarro, S Botton… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Late leaf spot (LLS; Cercosporidium personatum) is a major fungal disease of cultivated
peanut (Arachis hypogaea). A recombinant inbred line population segregating for …

Utilizing wild species for peanut improvement

HT Stalker - Crop Science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an allotetraploid species with a very large
and complex genome. This species is susceptible to numerous foliar and soil‐borne …

Identification of quantitative trait loci for protein content, oil content and oil quality for groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

C Sarvamangala, MVC Gowda, RK Varshney - Field crops research, 2011 - Elsevier
Very few efforts have been made to improve the nutritional quality of groundnut, as
biochemical estimation of quality traits is laborious and uneconomic; hence, it is difficult to …

Genomic tools in groundnut breeding program: status and perspectives

P Janila, MT Variath, MK Pandey, H Desmae… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Groundnut, a nutrient-rich food legume, is cultivated world over. It is valued for its good
quality cooking oil, energy and protein rich food, and nutrient-rich fodder. Globally …