Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Efficiency of breeding programs of legume crops such as chickpea, pigeonpea and
groundnut has been considerably improved over the past decade through deployment of …

Improvement in traits of agronomic importance is the top breeding priority of crop
improvement programs. Majority of these agronomic traits show complex quantitative …

Legumes are extremely valuable because of their high protein content and several other
nutritional components. The major challenge lies in maintaining the quantity and quality of …

Multiparental genetic map** populations such as nested‐association map** (NAM)
have great potential for investigating quantitative traits and associated genomic regions …

Key message The review outlines advances in pigeonpea genomics, breeding and seed
delivery systems to achieve yield gains at farmers' field. Abstract Pigeonpea is a nutritious …

Main conclusion Pigeonpea has potential to foster sustainable agriculture and resilience in
evolving climate change; understanding bio-physiological and molecular mechanisms of …

In addition to proteins and/or oils, mature seeds of most legume crops contain important
carbohydrate components, including starches and sugars. Starch is also an essential …

Recent advances in next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have led the surge of
genomic resources for the improvement legume crops. Advances in high throughput …

Pines are some of the most ecologically and economically important tree species in the
world, and many have enormous natural distributions or have been extensively planted …