Genetic resources of pulse crops in India: An overview

Rana, J. C.; Gautam, N. K.; Gayacharan,; Singh, Mohar; Yadav, Rashmi; Tripathi, Kuldeep; Yadav, SK; Panwar, NS; Bhardwaj, Rakesh

doi:10.5958/0975-6906.2016.00061.4

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“…These strategies will pave the way for efficiently meeting humankind’s demand for a more plentiful and nutritious food supply [93,94,95,96,97,98,99]. Cultivated species of pulses have narrow genetic diversity to withstand current global warming challenges [100]. It is therefore necessary to look back to wild species and land races when searching for useful adaptive traits/genes.…”

Section: Looking Back To Wild Species and Land Races For Adaptive mentioning

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Towards Exploitation of Adaptive Traits for Climate-Resilient Smart Pulses

Kumar

Choudhary

Gupta

et al. 2019

IJMS

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Pulses are the main source of protein and minerals in the vegetarian diet. These are primarily cultivated on marginal lands with few inputs in several resource-poor countries of the world, including several in South Asia. Their cultivation in resource-scarce conditions exposes them to various abiotic and biotic stresses, leading to significant yield losses. Furthermore, climate change due to global warming has increased their vulnerability to emerging new insect pests and abiotic stresses that can become even more serious in the coming years. The changing climate scenario has made it more challenging to breed and develop climate-resilient smart pulses. Although pulses are climate smart, as they simultaneously adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change, their narrow genetic diversity has always been a major constraint to their improvement for adaptability. However, existing genetic diversity still provides opportunities to exploit novel attributes for developing climate-resilient cultivars. The mining and exploitation of adaptive traits imparting tolerance/resistance to climate-smart pulses can be accelerated further by using cutting-edge approaches of biotechnology such as transgenics, genome editing, and epigenetics. This review discusses various classical and molecular approaches and strategies to exploit adaptive traits for breeding climate-smart pulses.

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Section: Looking Back To Wild Species and Land Races For Adaptive mentioning

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Towards Exploitation of Adaptive Traits for Climate-Resilient Smart Pulses

Kumar

Choudhary

Gupta

et al. 2019

IJMS

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“…The assessment of genetic diversity is important not only for crop improvements programmes but also efficient management and conservation of germplasm resources. Detailed evaluation of germplasm for good agronomy and quality and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses helps in the identification of superior genetic stocks and subsequently for their utilization in breeding programmes (Rana et al, 2016). Further inclusion of all the component traits in selection scheme for intricate characters like yield and quality is impractical because of apparent reasons, knowledge of association of various traits is fundamental in formulating efficient breeding programme.…”

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Genetic Diversity for Quality Traits and Seed Yield in Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]

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“…In this paper, our goal is to explore the latter strategy. Information on tropical grain legumes or minor pulses already exists in literature; however, it is often limited either to one species [25,26] or to a comparison of several species on a national/continental level, e.g., in India [27][28][29], Australia [30], Africa [31][32][33] or to a comparison of wild species [25,34,35]. The aim of this review is two-fold: on the one hand, it will provide insights about the agronomical and nutritional characteristics of a large panel of grain legume crops which are currently unknown and cultivated poorly or not at all in European temperate regions, and on the other hand, it will explore the potential matching of these pulses in temperate Western European climatic conditions.…”

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Innovative Pulses for Western European Temperate Regions: A Review

Gotor

Marraccini

2022

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In Europe, there is an increasing interest in pulses both for their beneficial effects in cropping systems and for human health. However, despite these advantages, the acreage dedicated to pulses has been declining and their diversity has reduced, particularly in European temperate regions, due to several social and economic factors. This decline has stimulated a political debate in the EU on the development of plant proteins. By contrast, in Southern countries, a large panel of minor pulses is still cropped in regional patterns of production and consumption. The aim of this paper is to investigate the potential for cultivation of minor pulses in European temperate regions as a complement to common pulses. Our assumption is that some of these crops could adapt to different pedoclimatic conditions, given their physiological adaptation capacity, and that these pulses might be of interest for the development of innovative local food chains in an EU policy context targeting protein autonomy. The research is based on a systematic review of 269 papers retrieved in the Scopus database (1974–2019), which allowed us to identify 41 pulses as candidate species with protein content higher than 20% that are already consumed as food. For each species, the main agronomic (e.g., temperature or water requirements) and nutritional characteristics (e.g., proteins or antinutritional contents) were identified in their growing regions. Following their agronomic characteristics, the candidate crops were confronted with variability in the annual growing conditions for spring crops in Western European temperate areas to determine the earliest potential sowing and latest harvest dates. Subsequently, the potential sum of temperatures was calculated with the Agri4cast database to establish the potential climatic suitability. For the first time, 21 minor pulses were selected to be grown in these temperate areas and appear worthy of investigation in terms of yield potential, nutritional characteristics or best management practices.

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Genetic resources of pulse crops in India: An overview

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Towards Exploitation of Adaptive Traits for Climate-Resilient Smart Pulses

Towards Exploitation of Adaptive Traits for Climate-Resilient Smart Pulses

Genetic Diversity for Quality Traits and Seed Yield in Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]

Innovative Pulses for Western European Temperate Regions: A Review

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