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Climate Change and Management of Cool Season Grain Legume Crops

Breeding for drought tolerance in legumes has been mired by its polygenic control. In the past decade, efforts have been made to use molecular tools for dissecting the genetic basis of drought tolerance. Molecular and genomic analyses have facilitated gene discovery and enabled genetic engineering using several functional or regulatory genes to activate specific or broad pathways related to drought tolerance. Model plants have been established for legumes and other crops that serve as templates for studies allowing faster information generation and transfer between similar species. Molecular tools have been successfully employed in cereal crops leading to near commercialisation of genetically engineered wheat and rice tolerant to drought stress. However, the progress made in understanding drought tolerance in legumes is way behind that in cereal crops. We have to be cautious about the fact that legumes would react differently to drought stress compared to cereals as they are physiologically different in areas of grain filling, root architecture and nitrogen fixation. The information available about drought tolerance mechanism from studying model plant Arabidopsis and crops like wheat and rice, needs to be validated in legumes using comparative genomic tools. The focus should also be on links between corporate research organizations, academic institutions and international organizations to avoid duplication of effort and to maximize efficient utilization of limited resources.

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