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 …

Potential and limits of exploitation of crop wild relatives for pea, lentil, and chickpea improvement

CJ Coyne, S Kumar, EJB von Wettberg… - Legume …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Legumes represent the second most important family of crop plants after grasses,
accounting for approximately 27% of the world's crop production. Past domestication …

Effects of Drought, Heat and Their Interaction on the Growth, Yield and Photosynthetic Function of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) Genotypes Varying in Heat and …

A Sehgal, K Sita, J Kumar, S Kumar, S Singh… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Rising temperatures and drought stress limit the growth and production potential of lentil
(Lens culinaris Medikus), particularly during reproductive growth and seed filling. The …

[图书][B] Crop evolution, adaptation and yield

LT Evans, LT Evans - 1996 - books.google.com
In this major 1993 work, Lloyd Evans provides an integrated view of the domestication,
adaptation and improvement of crop plants, bringing together genetic diversity, plant …

Adaptation of grain legumes to climate change: a review

V Vadez, JD Berger, T Warkentin, S Asseng… - Agronomy for …, 2012 - Springer
Humanity is heading toward the major challenge of having to increase food production by
about 50% by 2050 to cater for an additional three billion inhabitants, in a context of arable …

A conserved molecular basis for photoperiod adaptation in two temperate legumes

JL Weller, LC Liew, VFG Hecht… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Legumes were among the first plant species to be domesticated, and accompanied cereals
in expansion of agriculture from the Fertile Crescent into diverse environments across the …

Application of biotechnology in breeding lentil for resistance to biotic and abiotic stress

FJ Muehlbauer, S Cho, A Sarker, KE McPhee… - Euphytica, 2006 - Springer
Lentil is a self-pollinating diploid (2 n= 14 chromosomes) annual cool season legume crop
that is produced throughout the world and is highly valued as a high protein food. Several …

Towards the reliable prediction of time to flowering in six annual crops. I. The development of simple models for fluctuating field environments

RJ Summerfield, EH Roberts, RH Ellis… - Experimental …, 1991 - cambridge.org
Despite numerous altempts, the development of generalixed models capable of accurate
predictions of the times from sowing to flowering (f) of crop plants in field environments has …

Screening the FIGS Set of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) Germplasm for Tolerance to Terminal Heat and Combined Drought-Heat Stress

N El Haddad, K Rajendran, A Smouni, NE Es-Safi… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) is one of the most important cool season food legume crops
grown in many countries. Seeds are typically rich in protein, fiber, prebiotic carbohydrates …

[PDF][PDF] Modelling crop improvement in a G× E× M framework via gene-trait-phenotype relationships

C Messina, G Hammer, Z Dong, D Podlich… - Crop physiology …, 2009 - researchgate.net
Crop performance is determined by the combined effects of the genotype of the crop and the
environmental conditions of the production system. Improving crop performance to satisfy an …