“…This was possible because of the formation of core, mini‐core, and Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS) sets of lentil germplasm, which have been a very useful for systematic evaluation. Significant variation has been reported for yield traits (Erskine, 1983; Erskine, Adham, & Holly, 1989; Kumar et al, 2014), response in flowering to temperature and photoperiod (Erskine et al, 1994; Erskine, Ellis, Summerfield, Roberts, & Hussain, 1990), winter‐hardiness, iron deficiency chlorosis and boron imbalances (Srivastava, Bhandari, Yadav, Joshi, & Erskine, 2000), drought and heat tolerance (Hamdi & Erskine, 1996), herbicide tolerance (Sharma et al, 2018), Orobanche tolerance (Fernández‐Aparicio, Sillero, & Rubiales, 2009), and resistance to fungal diseases and viruses (Erskine, Saxena, & Saxena, 1993; Kumari et al, 2017). Kumar et al (2014) recorded useful genetic variability for days to 50% flowering, secondary branches, number of pods, biological yield, grain yield, and 100‐seed weight in the indigenous lentils.…”