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The Search for Wild Relatives of Cool Season Legumes (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
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The Search for Wild Relatives of Cool Season Legumes (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Plant Science
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The study of origin and domestication of legumes described in this
book emerged when it became apparent that while this kind of
information is adequate for cereals, the pulses lagged behind. At
the end of the 1960s the senior author initiated a study on the
chickpea's wild relatives followed by similar attempts for broad
bean, fenugreek, common vetch, bitter vetch, and lentil. The junior
author joined the project in the late 1980s with a study of the
genetics of interspecific hybrid embryo abortion in lentil and
later has extensively investigated chickpea domestication and wild
peas. While this book mainly describes our research findings,
pertinent results obtained by others are also discussed and
evaluated. Studying the wild relatives of legumes included
evaluation of their taxonomic status, their morphological
variation, ecological requirements, exploration of their
distribution, and seed collection in their natural habitats. Seeds
were examined for their protein profile as preliminary hints of
their affinity to the cultigens and plants grown from these seeds
were used for establishing their karyotype, producing intra- and
interspecific hybrids and analyses of their chromosome pairing at
meiosis and fertility. The aim of these investigations was the
identification of the potential wild gene pool of the domesticated
forms. Assessment of genetic variation among accessions,
particularly in the genus Lens, was made by isozymes and
chloroplast DNA studies. The main findings include the discovery of
the chickpea wild progenitor; studies of lentil in three
crossability groups; wild peas proceeded in two lines of study;
faba bean and fenugreek and their wild progenitors have not yet
been identified; common vetch and its related form were treated
here as an aggregate (A. sativa); we found gene flow between
members of different karyotypes is possible; bitter vetch and its
relation to the domesticated form were established by breeding
experiments.
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