Sodium azide, a chemical mutagen has become important tool to enhance agronomic traits
of crop plants. It is being used to produce resistance in various susceptible crops to improve …

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

Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is one of the most important grain legumes in the world because of
its multiple uses, its high nutritional value, and its ability to grow over a wide range of climatic …

Background Induced mutagenesis is a quick and effective breeding strategy to enhance
genetic variability, an important prerequisite for the genetic improvement of existing lentil …

World is continuously facing the food insecurity and malnutrition problem. Scientists all over
the world are busy in develo** the latest and innovative approaches for reducing the …

Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is a rich source of dietary proteins, minerals and nutrients
particularly in India and a feed crop in the world. Successful crop breeding programmes …

Present investigation was carried out to explore the possibility of inducing genetic variability
for yield and yield contributing traits in well-adapted variety PU-19 of black gram (Vigna …

Pulse crops are the primary source of dietary proteins for the predominantly vegetarian
population of the country and complement the carbohydrate-rich cereals in ensuring …

Narrow genetic variation limits the success of crop improvement programs. Mutagenesis
using ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS) provides an opportunity to increase genetic variation …

Draba nemorosa, and Lobularia maritima). Further analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana and its
close relatives has shown that pseudogenization has also occurred via the loss of its …