Drought and heat stress are two major abiotic stresses that challenge the sustainability of
agriculture to a larger extend. The changing and unpredictable climate further aggravates …

Black gram [Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper] is a highly nutritious grain legume crop, mainly grown
in South and Southeast Asia, with the largest area in India, where the crop is challenged by …

In plant breeding programs, one of the oldest methods is mutation breeding. Currently,
mutation breeding has became popular among the breeders and scientists again with its …

Throughout history, herbal medicine has played a vital role in understanding and treating
various ailments in humans and animals. The medicinal aromatic plant species, with their …

Breeding of pulses, especially chickpea, by exploiting genetic diversity using conventional
methods has been practiced in the past. Nevertheless, these methods at present are …

Gamma irradiation has been used in several ornamental plant species to obtain the desired
genetic variability. Commercially, ornamental plants with a rich variety of flower colors and …

Mutation is a sudden heritable change in the genetic material of living organism.
Spontaneous mutation, the natural process that develops new allele copies of a gene was …

The biodiversity of grain legumes has a great important role in food and nutritional security
worldwide. Grain legumes are a vital component of the human diet and also increased in …

Field pea (Pisum sativus L.) is a nutritionally dense winter season pulse crop, consumed
worldwide as food, feed and fodder and offers nutritional security to low-income folks of …

Urban green areas serve both the mental and physical health of the people living in the
settlements; therefore, the ornamental plants used on green areas currently have a …