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Nutrient-rich food crops like pigeonpea are important to food and nutritional security worldwide. In India, pigeonpea is the second most important pulse crop after chickpea. Apart from imparting a range of health benefits, pigeonpea has great significance in low-input food production systems. Breeding efforts primarily relying on hybridization and selection have delivered several high-yielding cultivars suited to a range of agroclimatic zones in India. The breeding programs, however, need to be more efficient in order to meet the increasing dietary needs of burgeoning population. In the context, new breeding tools and technologies are now in place to accelerate breeding progress. For example, a variety of modern genomic resources that have been developed recently include whole-genome sequence and re-sequencing and large-scale molecular markers for molecular breeding. Heterosis breeding, genome-wide prediction and speed breeding could play significant role in improving yield gains in pigeonpea. In this chapter, we outlined the major milestones achieved in pigeonpea breeding and discussed the current status of genomic resources along with the possibilities of emerging technologies like speed breeding for integration in routine breeding programs.

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Sharma, P. et al. (2020). Updates of Pigeonpea Breeding and Genomics for Yield Improvement in India. In: Gosal, S.S., Wani, S.H. (eds) Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47306-8_4

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