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The Chickpea Genome (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Chickpea Genome (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Compendium of Plant Genomes
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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. Besides
being 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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