Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance

Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is a versatile, stress-tolerant, and nutritious grain legume, possessing traits of value for enhancing the sustainability of dry sub-tropical and tropical agricultural systems. The use of crop wild relatives (CWR) in pigeonpea breeding has been successful in pr...

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Autores principales: Khoury, Colin K., Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P., Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando, Sosa, Chrystian C., Bernau, V., Kassa, MT, Norton, Sally L., Maesen, L.J.G. van der, Upadhyaya, Hari D., Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Jarvis, Andy, Struik, Paul C.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/56841
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author Khoury, Colin K.
Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P.
Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando
Sosa, Chrystian C.
Bernau, V.
Kassa, MT
Norton, Sally L.
Maesen, L.J.G. van der
Upadhyaya, Hari D.
Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando
Jarvis, Andy
Struik, Paul C.
author_browse Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando
Bernau, V.
Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P.
Jarvis, Andy
Kassa, MT
Khoury, Colin K.
Maesen, L.J.G. van der
Norton, Sally L.
Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando
Sosa, Chrystian C.
Struik, Paul C.
Upadhyaya, Hari D.
author_facet Khoury, Colin K.
Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P.
Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando
Sosa, Chrystian C.
Bernau, V.
Kassa, MT
Norton, Sally L.
Maesen, L.J.G. van der
Upadhyaya, Hari D.
Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando
Jarvis, Andy
Struik, Paul C.
author_sort Khoury, Colin K.
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description Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is a versatile, stress-tolerant, and nutritious grain legume, possessing traits of value for enhancing the sustainability of dry sub-tropical and tropical agricultural systems. The use of crop wild relatives (CWR) in pigeonpea breeding has been successful in providing important resistance, quality, and breeding efficiency traits to the crop. Current breeding objectives for pigeonpea include increasing its tolerance to abiotic stresses, including heat, cold, drought, and waterlogging. Here we assess the potential for pigeonpea CWR to be further employed in crop improvement by compiling wild species occurrence and ex situ conservation information, producing geographic distribution models for the species, identifying gaps in the comprehensiveness of current germplasm collections, and using ecogeographic information to identify CWR populations with the potential to contribute agronomic traits of priority to breeders. The fifteen prioritized relatives of pigeonpea generally occur in South and Southeast Asia to Australia, with the highest concentrations of species in southern India and northern Australia. These taxa differ considerably among themselves and in comparison to the crop in their adaptations to temperature, precipitation and edaphic conditions. We find that these wild genetic resources are broadly under-represented in ex situ conservation systems, with 80% of species assessed as high priority for further collecting, thus their availability to plant breeders is insufficient. We identify species and highlight geographic locations for further collecting in order to improve the completeness of pigeonpea CWR germplasm collections, with particular emphasis on potential traits for abiotic stress tolerance.
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spelling CGSpace568412025-04-17T08:26:29Z Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance Khoury, Colin K. Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P. Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando Sosa, Chrystian C. Bernau, V. Kassa, MT Norton, Sally L. Maesen, L.J.G. van der Upadhyaya, Hari D. Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando Jarvis, Andy Struik, Paul C. climate change agriculture food security crop improvement Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is a versatile, stress-tolerant, and nutritious grain legume, possessing traits of value for enhancing the sustainability of dry sub-tropical and tropical agricultural systems. The use of crop wild relatives (CWR) in pigeonpea breeding has been successful in providing important resistance, quality, and breeding efficiency traits to the crop. Current breeding objectives for pigeonpea include increasing its tolerance to abiotic stresses, including heat, cold, drought, and waterlogging. Here we assess the potential for pigeonpea CWR to be further employed in crop improvement by compiling wild species occurrence and ex situ conservation information, producing geographic distribution models for the species, identifying gaps in the comprehensiveness of current germplasm collections, and using ecogeographic information to identify CWR populations with the potential to contribute agronomic traits of priority to breeders. The fifteen prioritized relatives of pigeonpea generally occur in South and Southeast Asia to Australia, with the highest concentrations of species in southern India and northern Australia. These taxa differ considerably among themselves and in comparison to the crop in their adaptations to temperature, precipitation and edaphic conditions. We find that these wild genetic resources are broadly under-represented in ex situ conservation systems, with 80% of species assessed as high priority for further collecting, thus their availability to plant breeders is insufficient. We identify species and highlight geographic locations for further collecting in order to improve the completeness of pigeonpea CWR germplasm collections, with particular emphasis on potential traits for abiotic stress tolerance. 2015-04 2015-02-23T16:24:12Z 2015-02-23T16:24:12Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/56841 en Open Access Elsevier Khoury CK, Castañeda-Alvarez NP, Achicanoy HA, Sosa CC, Bernau V, Kassa MT, Norton SL, van der Maesen LJG, Upadhyaya HD, Ramírez-Villegas J, Jarvis A, Struik PC. 2015. Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance. Biological Conservation pp. 259-270.
spellingShingle climate change
agriculture
food security
crop improvement
Khoury, Colin K.
Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P.
Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando
Sosa, Chrystian C.
Bernau, V.
Kassa, MT
Norton, Sally L.
Maesen, L.J.G. van der
Upadhyaya, Hari D.
Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando
Jarvis, Andy
Struik, Paul C.
Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance
title Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance
title_full Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance
title_fullStr Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance
title_full_unstemmed Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance
title_short Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance
title_sort crop wild relatives of pigeonpea cajanus cajan l millsp distributions ex situ conservation status and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance
topic climate change
agriculture
food security
crop improvement
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/56841
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