Overview
- Offers an up-to-date insight into the latest progress in genome sequencing and analysis
- Demonstrates how scientific results in plant genomics can be used to improve plant breeding
- With contributions of an international board of authors
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Compendium of Plant Genomes (CPG)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book sheds new light on the chickpea genome sequencing and resequencing of chickpea germplasm lines and provides insights into classical genetics, cytogenetics, and trait mapping. It also offers an overview of the latest advances in genome sequencing and analysis.
The growing human population, rapid climate changes and limited amounts of arable land are creating substantial challenges in connection with the availability and affordability of nutritious food for smallholder farmers in developing countries. In this context, climate smart crops are essential to alleviating the hunger of the millions of poor and undernourished people living in developing countries. In addition to cereals, grain legumes are an integral part of the human diet and provide sustainable income for smallholder farmers in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Among grain legumes, the chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is the second most important in terms of production and productivity. Besidesbeing a rich source of proteins, it can fix atmospheric nitrogen through symbiosis with rhizobia and increase the input of combined nitrogen. Several abiotic stresses like drought, heat, salinity, together with biotic stresses like Fusarium wilt, Ascochyta blight, and Botrytis grey mould have led to production losses, as the chickpeas is typically grown in the harsh climates of our planet’s semi-arid regions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Chickpea Genome
Editors: Rajeev K. Varshney, Mahendar Thudi, Fred Muehlbauer
Series Title: Compendium of Plant Genomes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66117-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66115-5Published: 05 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88180-5Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66117-9Published: 02 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2199-4781
Series E-ISSN: 2199-479X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 142
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture