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 …

Towards marker‐assisted selection in pulses: a review

J Kumar, AK Choudhary, RK Solanki, A Pratap - Plant breeding, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
With 2 figures and 2 tables Abstract Pulses are important sources of proteins in vegetarian
diet. However, genetic improvement in production and productivity of pulse crops has been …

Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion

A Crowther, L Lucas, R Helm… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The Austronesian settlement of the remote island of Madagascar remains one of the great
puzzles of Indo-Pacific prehistory. Although linguistic, ethnographic, and genetic evidence …

Construction of a Genetic Linkage Map and Genetic Analysis of Domestication Related Traits in Mungbean (Vigna radiata)

T Isemura, A Kaga, S Tabata, P Somta, P Srinives… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
The genetic differences between mungbean and its presumed wild ancestor were analyzed
for domestication related traits by QTL mapping. A genetic linkage map of mungbean was …

Genomic resources in mungbean for future breeding programs

SK Kim, RM Nair, J Lee, SH Lee - Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Among the legume family, mungbean (Vigna radiata) has become one of the important
crops in Asia, showing a steady increase in global production. It provides a good source of …

The AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center mungbean (Vigna radiata) core and mini core collections

R Schafleitner, RM Nair, A Rathore, Y Wang, C Lin… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Large ex situ germplasm collections generally harbor a wide range of crop
diversity. AVRDC–The World Vegetable Center is holding in trust the world's second largest …

Characterization of linkage disequilibrium and population structure in a mungbean diversity panel

TJ Noble, Y Tao, ES Mace, B Williams… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Mungbean [Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek var. radiata] is an important grain legume globally,
providing a high-quality plant protein source largely produced and consumed in South and …

Characterization of microsatellites and gene contents from genome shotgun sequences of mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek)

S Tangphatsornruang, P Somta, P Uthaipaisanwong… - BMC Plant …, 2009 - Springer
Background Mungbean is an important economical crop in Asia. However, genomic
research has lagged behind other crop species due to the lack of polymorphic DNA markers …

Global legume diversity assessment: concepts, key indicators, and strategies

T Yahara, F Javadi, Y Onoda, LP de Queiroz, DP Faith… - Taxon, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
While many plant species are considered threatened under anthropogenic pressure, it
remains uncertain how rapidly we are losing plant species diversity. To fill this gap, we …

Genetic variation in cultivated mungbean germplasm and its implication in breeding for high yield

T Yimram, P Somta, P Srinives - Field crops research, 2009 - Elsevier
We evaluated 9 qualitative and 21 quantitative traits in 340 diverse cultivated mungbean
accessions collected at AVRDC-the World Vegetable Center, Taiwan to assess the extent …