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Lentils

Potential Resources for Enhancing Genetic Gains

  • 1st Edition - August 10, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Mohar Singh
  • Language: English

Lentils: Potential Resources for Enhancing Genetic Gains describes the evolutionary aspects and agronomic potential of this important pulse with emphasis placed on wide hybridiza… Read more

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Description

Lentils: Potential Resources for Enhancing Genetic Gains describes the evolutionary aspects and agronomic potential of this important pulse with emphasis placed on wide hybridization, including molecular aspects and future breeding strategies. The existing variability among cultivated germplasm has been exploited to reach a desirable level of productivity. However, to attain further breakthroughs in increasing yield and improving stability in future cultivars, new sources of genes/alleles need to be identified and incorporated into cultivated varieties. This book provides specific use information, including wild lentil germplasm utilization, thus allowing for the selection of transgressive interspecific recombinants that can be adapted to specific environments.

Key features

  • Identifies breeding resources and the agronomic value assessed for specific traits of interest
  • Presents marker assisted breeding work and genomic resources
  • Describes strategies for wild lentils using wide hybridization
  • Features key breeding strategies

Readership

Lentil/pulse researchers, scholars, students and policy makers, those who are engaged in genetic and production enhancement of pulses in general and lentils in particular across the world

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Origin, distribution, and gene pools

3. Genetic resources: collection, conservation (in-situ and ex-situ), characterization and maintenance

4. Conventional cytogenetic manipulations

5. Embryo-rescue and cytogenetic manipulations

6. Gene pyramiding and multiple character breeding

7. Molecular marker –assisted gene pyramiding

8. Transferring multiple genes through backcross breeding

9. Transferring multiple characters through conventional multiple crossing

10. Genetic transformation

11. The impact of improvement research

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 17, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editor

MS

Mohar Singh

Dr Mohar Singh currently works as Principal Scientist (Plant Genetic Resources) at ICAR- National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources Regional Station, Shimla India. He received his PhD degree in Plant Breeding from Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur, India followed by DSc from Himachal Pradesh University Shimla India. He is working on genetic and genomic resources of pulses, pseudo cereals and cereals including their crop wild relatives and landraces foe diversity analysis using next generation technologies, which resulted into identification of useful traits against nutritional and major biotic and abiotic stresses including agronomic improvement related characters, some which have been introgressed into the cultivated backgrounds for diversification of cultivated gene pool. He has published more than 120 research papers in journals of national and international repute and also holds three textbooks and eight edited books to his credit published by Elsevier Insight, Academic Press and Springer, among others.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal Scientist, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources Regional Station, Shimla, India

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