Genetic and Genomic Resources of Grain Legume Improvement
2013 | ISBN: 0123979358 | English | 322 pages | PDF | 5.90 MB
2013 | ISBN: 0123979358 | English | 322 pages | PDF | 5.90 MB
Grain legumes, including common-bean, chickpea, pigeonpea, pea, cowpea, lentil and others, form important constituents of global diets, both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Despite this significant role, global production has increased only marginally in the past 50 years. The slow production growth, along with a rising human population and improved buying capacity has substantially reduced the per capita availability of food legumes. Changes in environmental climate have also had significant impact on production, creating a need to identify stable donors among genetic resources for environmentally robust genes and designing crops resilient to climate change.
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