Omics Path to Increasing Productivity in Less-Studied Crops Under Changing Climate-Lentil a Case Study.

ABSTRACT: Conventional breeding techniques for crop improvement have reached their full potential, and hence, alternative routes are required to ensure a sustained genetic gain in lentils. Although high-throughput omics technologies have been effectively employed in major crops, less-studied crops such as lentils have primarily relied on conventional breeding. Application of genomics and transcriptomics in lentils has resulted in linkage maps and identification of QTLs and candidate genes related to agronomically relevant traits and biotic and abiotic stress tolerance. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) complemented with high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) technologies is shown to provide new opportunities to identify genomic regions and marker-trait associations to increase lentil breeding efficiency.

SUBMITTER: Tiwari M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9125188 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature