Breeding and Genomics Interventions for Developing Ascochyta Blight Resistant Grain Legumes.

ABSTRACT: Grain legumes are a key food source for ensuring global food security and sustaining agriculture. However, grain legume production is challenged by growing disease incidence due to global climate change. Ascochyta blight (AB) is a major disease, causing substantial yield losses in grain legumes worldwide. Harnessing the untapped reserve of global grain legume germplasm, landraces, and crop wild relatives (CWRs) could help minimize yield losses caused by AB infection in grain legumes. Several genetic determinants controlling AB resistance in various grain legumes have been identified following classical genetic and conventional breeding approaches. However, the advent of molecular markers, biparental quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, genome-wide association studies, genomic resources d

SUBMITTER: Jha UC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8880496 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature