Editorial: Accelerating Genetic Gains in Pulses

cg.contactm.baum@cgiar.orgen_US
cg.contributor.centerInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDAen_US
cg.contributor.centerUniversity of Tennesseeen_US
cg.contributor.centerIndian Council of Agricultural Research, Indian Institute of Pulses Research - ICAR-IIPRen_US
cg.contributor.centerNational Research Council Canada - CNRC-NRCen_US
cg.contributor.crpResilient Agrifood Systems - RAFSen_US
cg.contributor.crpGenetic Innovation - GIen_US
cg.contributor.funderCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeAccelerated Breedingen_US
cg.contributor.initiativeFragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africaen_US
cg.contributor.project-lead-instituteInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDAen_US
cg.creator.idAgrawal, Shiv Kumar: 0000-0001-8407-3562en_US
cg.creator.idBaum, Michael: 0000-0002-8248-6088en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88976-042-8en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn1664-462Xen_US
cg.journalFrontiers in Plant Scienceen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systemsen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaGenetic Innovationen_US
cg.subject.agrovocimprovementen_US
cg.subject.agrovoclegumesen_US
cg.subject.agrovocplant breedingen_US
cg.subject.agrovocpulsesen_US
cg.subject.agrovocgoal 2 zero hungeren_US
cg.subject.agrovoclegumeen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food securityen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren_US
cg.volume13en_US
dc.contributorAgrawal, Shiv Kumaren_US
dc.contributorPolowick, Patricia L.en_US
dc.contributorBlair, Matthew W.en_US
dc.contributorBaum, Michaelen_US
dc.creatorPratap, Adityaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-16T20:44:43Z
dc.date.available2022-12-16T20:44:43Z
dc.description.abstractLegumes, members of the Fabaceae/Leguminosae family, are the third largest family of higher plants with almost 20,000 species belonging to 650 genera, and are ubiquitous all over the world. Among all legumes, pulse crops or food legumes fall into the four clades of the subfamily Papilionoideae which include aeschynomenoids/dalbergiods, genistoids, hologalegina, and phaseoloids/millettoids. They are distinctive due to their positive impact on agricultural and environmental sustainability and have a prominent role in promoting human and animal health, soil amelioration, cropping system diversification, and sustenance of rural livelihoods (Pratap et al., 2021a). These also provide protein isolates that are increasingly being used in the food industry as functional ingredients suitable for vegan diets (Robinson et al., 2019). The inclusion of pulses in rotation with cereals helps to improve system yields, enhance net carbon sequestration, and lower the carbon footprint. Nonetheless, in addition to being an excellent source of protein, starch, and micronutrients, pulses also contain anti-nutritional compounds that can interfere with the absorption of minerals (Moore et al., 2018) and also the digestion of protein (Clemente et al., 2015). Realizing their importance, significant research has been dedicated to their genetic amelioration, thereby turning them into mainstream crops from so-called “orphan legumes”. Classical plant breeding methods led to the development of more than 3,800 improved varieties of different pulse crops globally, with improved attributes of grain yield, crop duration, stress resistance, nutrition quality, etc. However, despite this effort, the increase in average pulse yields (from 637 to 1,009 kg/ha) has been modest compared to dramatic increases in cereal productivity (from 1,353 to 4,074 kg/ha) between 1961 and 2017 (Kumar et al., 2020). Among legumes, Koester et al. (2014) studied 80 years of historical data of soybean breeding at the Crop Research and Education Center in Urbana, USA and reported a genetic gain of 26.5 kg ha−1 year−1 , attributing the gain in grain yield to increases in light interception, energy conversion, and partitioning efficiencies. Productivity gains in pulses have been recorded when especially considered along with the markedly reduced duration of the improved varieties, leading to increased cropping intensity, while genetic gains have been recorded for traits imparting resistance to major biotic and abiotic stresses, herbicide tolerance, larger seeds, and improved nutritional quality. This resulted in the growth, in terms of production and productivity, in major pulse-producing countries. For example, India witnessed the highest growth in production in mung bean (178%), followed by chickpea (125%), urdbean (90%), pigeonpea (51%), and lentil (34%) in the last 15 years (Gaur, 2021). Notably, breeding in most pulses has remained confined to the exploitation of genetic variation within the primary gene pool, which has resulted in a narrow genetic base in most of them.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationAditya Pratap, Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Patricia L. Polowick, Matthew W. Blair, Michael Baum. (7/4/2022). Editorial: Accelerating Genetic Gains in Pulses. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13.en_US
dc.identifier.statusOpen accessen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/67857
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen_US
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0en_US
dc.sourceFrontiers in Plant Science;13,(2022)en_US
dc.subjectqtlsen_US
dc.subjectnutrition, health and food securityen_US
dc.titleEditorial: Accelerating Genetic Gains in Pulsesen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dcterms.available2022-04-07en_US
mel.impact-factor6.627en_US

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