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Pigeonpea Crop Improvement: Genomics and Post-genomics

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Pigeonpea remains an excellent lucrative crop in the face of adding climatic adversities. In the past five decades, constant exploration has been directed toward yield enhancement in pigeonpea in the deployment of several commercially decent cultivars in India. Empowering crop enhancement strategies with genomic and post-genomic tools tackle is imperative to attain the design earnings in crop yield. The vacuity of the draft genome sequence with a large-scale marker resource acquainted the exploration toward particularity mapping for flowering time, determinacy, fertility restoration, yield-attributing traits, and print insensitivity. Defined core and mini-core collection still eased the pigeonpea breeding being accessible for being inheritable diversity and developing stress resistance. Ultra-modern genomic tools like coming-generation sequencing and genome-wide selection helping in the appraisal of selection effectiveness are leading toward coming-generation parentage, an awaited corner in pigeonpea inheritable improvement. This book chapter emphasizes the ongoing inheritable enhancement in pigeonpea with a blend of genomic and post-genomic exploration.

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  1. Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora, Uttarakhand, India

    Devender Sharma

  2. Department of Vegetable Science, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, India

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  3. Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

    Susheel K. Sharma

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Ghosh, R., Tarafdar, A., Kasi Rao, M., Katravath, S., Sharma, M. (2023). Pigeonpea Crop Improvement: Genomics and Post-genomics. In: Sharma, D., Singh, S., Sharma, S.K., Singh, R. (eds) Smart Plant Breeding for Field Crops in Post-genomics Era . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8218-7_9

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