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Biodiversity and varietal development of pulses in South Asia
South Asia (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) is the largest producer, consumer and importer of pulses with 28% and 38% share in global production and acreage. The present ...
Drought tolerance in chickpea and lentil – present status and future strategies
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and lentil (Lens culinaris Medik. subsp. culinaris) are important cool-season food legumes globally. These crops encounter numerous biotic and abiotic stresses among which drought is the most ...
Digital Diffusion for Inclusive Agroecosystems
The technological advancements in agriculture have resulted in higher yields but lower ecological efficiency and nutritional value. Little innovations in later sectors such as integrating ecological functions in the ...
Grasspea and chicklings (Lathyrus L.)
The genetic diversity of the genus Lathyrus is of immense significance, particularly for rain-fed cropping systems of many countries (Campbell et al., 1994) as a resource for the improvement ofL. sativus L., but also because ...
Power transformations: An application for symmetrizing the distribution of sample coefficient of variation from inverse gaussian populations
The coefficient of variation (CV) of a random variable (or that of the corresponding
population), defined to be the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean of the cor
responding population, has been used in wideranging ...
Mapping Areas for Growing Pulses in Rice Fallows Using Multi-Criteria Spatial Decisions
Food legumes play an important role in ensuring food and nutritional as well as environmental security through crop diversification and sustainable intensification in India and elsewhere. India imports nearly 4–5 million ...
Lentil: breeding
The lentil is among the earliest domesticates from the Near East Fertile Crescent. With seed of high nutritional value and a low water use, the food legume crop – lentils – is well adapted to cereal-based dryland cropping ...
Biofortification through breeding interventions in lentil
Micronutrient deficiency affects more than two billion population worldwide especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The deficiency in human body is commonly described as “hidden hunger” leading to a range of health ...
Broadening the genetic base of lentil in South Asia
Today, approximately half of the world's area (46.3%) of lentil is in South Asia, where indigenous lentils are of a specific ecotype (pilosae) and exhibit a marked lack of variability. This lack of variability has limited ...
Economic Impact of International and National Lentil Improvement Research in Developing Countries
Lentils, one of humanity’s oldest food crops, originated in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East (Webb and Hawtin, 1981). As a food, lentils provide valuable protein and, unlike several other food legumes, few anti-nutritional ...