Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective
Legumes play a significant role in food and nutritional security and contribute to environmental sustainability. Although legumes are highly beneficial crops, it has not yet been possible to enhance their yield and production to a satisfactory level. Amid a rising population and low yield levels, pe...
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| author | Gayacharan Parida, Swarup K. Mondal, Nupur Yadav, Rashmi Vishwakarma, Harinder Rana, Jai Chand |
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| description | Legumes play a significant role in food and nutritional security and contribute to environmental sustainability. Although legumes are highly beneficial crops, it has not yet been possible to enhance their yield and production to a satisfactory level. Amid a rising population and low yield levels, per capita average legume consumption in India has fallen by 71% over the last 50 years, and this has led to protein-related malnutrition in a large segment of the Indian population, especially women and children. Several factors have hindered attempts to achieve yield enhancement in grain legumes, including biotic and abiotic pressures, a lack of good ideotypes, less amenability to mechanization, poorer responsiveness to fertilizer input, and a poor genetic base. Therefore, there is a need to mine the approximately 0.4 million ex situ collections of legumes that are being conserved in gene banks globally for identification of ideal donors for various traits. The Indian National Gene Bank conserves over 63,000 accessions of legumes belonging to 61 species. Recent initiatives have been undertaken in consortia mode with the aim of unlocking the genetic potential of ex situ collections and conducting large-scale germplasm characterization and evaluation analyses. We assume that large-scale phenotyping integrated with omics-based science will aid the identification of target traits and their use to enhance genetic gains. Additionally, in cases where the genetic base of major legumes is narrow, wild relatives have been evaluated, and these are being exploited through pre-breeding. Thus far, >200 accessions of various legumes have been registered as unique donors for various traits of interest. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1383992025-12-08T10:29:22Z Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective Gayacharan Parida, Swarup K. Mondal, Nupur Yadav, Rashmi Vishwakarma, Harinder Rana, Jai Chand germplasm nutrition food security sustainability legumes Legumes play a significant role in food and nutritional security and contribute to environmental sustainability. Although legumes are highly beneficial crops, it has not yet been possible to enhance their yield and production to a satisfactory level. Amid a rising population and low yield levels, per capita average legume consumption in India has fallen by 71% over the last 50 years, and this has led to protein-related malnutrition in a large segment of the Indian population, especially women and children. Several factors have hindered attempts to achieve yield enhancement in grain legumes, including biotic and abiotic pressures, a lack of good ideotypes, less amenability to mechanization, poorer responsiveness to fertilizer input, and a poor genetic base. Therefore, there is a need to mine the approximately 0.4 million ex situ collections of legumes that are being conserved in gene banks globally for identification of ideal donors for various traits. The Indian National Gene Bank conserves over 63,000 accessions of legumes belonging to 61 species. Recent initiatives have been undertaken in consortia mode with the aim of unlocking the genetic potential of ex situ collections and conducting large-scale germplasm characterization and evaluation analyses. We assume that large-scale phenotyping integrated with omics-based science will aid the identification of target traits and their use to enhance genetic gains. Additionally, in cases where the genetic base of major legumes is narrow, wild relatives have been evaluated, and these are being exploited through pre-breeding. Thus far, >200 accessions of various legumes have been registered as unique donors for various traits of interest. 2023-01-23 2024-01-24T14:59:42Z 2024-01-24T14:59:42Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138399 en Open Access application/pdf Frontiers Media Gayacharan; Parida, S.K.; Mondal, N.; Yadav, R.; Vishwakarma, H.; Rana, J.C. (2023) Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective. Frontiers in Genetics 14: ISSN: 1664-8021 |
| spellingShingle | germplasm nutrition food security sustainability legumes Gayacharan Parida, Swarup K. Mondal, Nupur Yadav, Rashmi Vishwakarma, Harinder Rana, Jai Chand Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective |
| title | Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective |
| title_full | Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective |
| title_fullStr | Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective |
| title_short | Mining legume germplasm for genetic gains: An Indian perspective |
| title_sort | mining legume germplasm for genetic gains an indian perspective |
| topic | germplasm nutrition food security sustainability legumes |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138399 |
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