Enhancing the nutritional quality of major food crops through conventional and genomics-assisted breeding

KB Gaikwad, S Rani, M Kumar, V Gupta… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Nutritional stress is making over two billion world population malnourished. Either our
commercially cultivated varieties of cereals, pulses, and oilseed crops are deficient in …

Current knowledge in lentil genomics and its application for crop improvement

S Kumar, K Rajendran, J Kumar, A Hamwieh… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Most of the lentil growing countries face a certain set of abiotic and biotic stresses causing
substantial reduction in crop growth, yield, and production. Until-to date, lentil breeders have …

Genomics-assisted breeding in four major pulse crops of developing countries: present status and prospects

A Bohra, MK Pandey, UC Jha, B Singh, IP Singh… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2014 - Springer
Key message Given recent advances in pulse molecular biology, genomics-driven breeding
has emerged as a promising approach to address the issues of limited genetic gain and low …

Genetic augmentation of legume crops using genomic resources and genotyping platforms for nutritional food security

RK Salgotra, CN Stewart Jr - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have led the surge of
genomic resources for the improvement legume crops. Advances in high throughput …

Genetics-and genomics-based interventions for nutritional enhancement of grain legume crops: status and outlook

A Bohra, KL Sahrawat, S Kumar, R Joshi… - Journal of applied …, 2015 - Springer
Meeting the food demands and ensuring nutritional security of the ever increasing global
population in the face of degrading natural resource base and impending climate change is …

Breeding strategies to improve lentil for diverse agro-ecological environments

J Kumar, S Gupta, P Gupta, S Dubey… - Indian Journal of …, 2016 - isgpb.org
Lentil is an important cool season pulse crops and it is cultivated world-wide in diverse agro
ecological conditions. Several varieties have been developed adopting conventional …

Toward climate-resilient lentils: challenges and opportunities

D Gupta, RHR Dadu, P Sambasivam, I Bar… - Genomic designing of …, 2019 - Springer
Lentil among legumes has a significant place in crop production and rotation, and the
nutritional security of growing human population. Current lentil cultivars have a narrow …

Current knowledge in lentil genomics and its application for crop improvement

S Kumar - Crop Breeding, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Lentil (Lens culinaris ssp. culinaris Medikus) is a diploid (2n= 2X= 14) self-pollinating crop
with a genome size of approximately 4 Gbp (Arumuganathan and Earle, 1991). It provides …

[图书][B] Crop breeding: bioinformatics and preparing for climate change

S Kumar - 2016 - books.google.com
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Climate change will severely impact
the world's food supply unless steps are taken to increase crop resilience. Otherwise, the …

Desarrollo de nuevos marcadores y mapeo genético en Lens= Development of new genetic markers and mapping in Lens

AS Miliani Silva - buleria.unileon.es
El objetivo principal de este estudio doctoral es obtener nuevos marcadores polimórficos
que permitan ampliar el mapa genético de la lenteja (Lens culinaris Medik.), los análisis …