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Broadening the Genetic Base of Grain Legumes

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The chapter discusses detailed account on germplasm enhancement-related information with regard to collection, systematic evaluation, and development of high yielding cultivars, which are necessary in consortium concept for its full exploitations. Key traits for broadening the genetic base in horse gram through interspecific hybridization would be disease and pest resistance, improving grain quality and protein percentage, and also reducing antinutritional factors. Utilization of Macrotyloma axillare, a wild species, which has many desirable traits like high number of pods per plant, high seed yield, and tolerance to cold and drought, has been highlighted.

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  1. National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Akola, 444 104, Maharashtra, India

    Nilamani Dikshit

  2. Department of Crop Improvement, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University, Palampur, 176 062, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Gopal Katna

  3. CSIR – National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Chandra Sekhar Mohanty

  4. Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, 751 003, Odisha, India

    Anath Bandhu Das

  5. National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Hyderabad, 500 030, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Natarajan Sivaraj

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  1. Germplasm Evaluation Division, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, Delhi, India

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  2. Germplasm Evaluation Division, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Ishwari Singh Bisht

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Dikshit, N., Katna, G., Mohanty, C.S., Das, A.B., Sivaraj, N. (2014). Horse Gram. In: Singh, M., Bisht, I., Dutta, M. (eds) Broadening the Genetic Base of Grain Legumes. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2023-7_10

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