Lentils: Potential Resources for Enhancing Genetic Gains - Softcover

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Dr Mohar Singh currently works as Principal Scientist (Plant Genetic Resources) at ICAR- National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources Regional Station, Shimla India. He received his PhD degree in Plant Breeding from Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur, India followed by DSc from Himachal Pradesh University Shimla India. He is working on genetic and genomic resources of pulses, pseudo cereals and cereals including their crop wild relatives and landraces foe diversity analysis using next generation technologies, which resulted into identification of useful traits against nutritional and major biotic and abiotic stresses including agronomic improvement related characters, some which have been introgressed into the cultivated backgrounds for diversification of cultivated gene pool. He has published more than 120 research papers in journals of national and international repute and also holds three textbooks and eight edited books to his credit published by Elsevier Insight, Academic Press and Springer, among others.

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Lentils: Potential Resources for Enhancing Genetic Gains

Increasing and improving lentil yield by selecting transgressive interspecific recombinants adapted to specific environments.

National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Shimla, India

Lentils: Potential Resources for Enhancing Genetic Gains describes the evolutionary aspects and agronomic potential of this important pulse, with major emphasis placed on wide hybridization including molecular aspects and future lentil breeding strategies. The existing variability among cultivated germplasm has been exploited to reach a desirable level of productivity. However, to attain further breakthroughs in increasing yield and improving stability in future cultivars, new sources of genes/alleles need to be identified and incorporated into the background of cultivated varieties. This book provides information on wild lentil germplasm utilization, allowing selection of transgressive interspecific recombinants adapted to specific environments to be effectively identified and explored.

• Identifies breeding resources and the agronomic value assessed for specific traits of interest
• Presents marker assisted breeding work and genomic resources
• Describes strategies for wild lentils using wide hybridization
• Features key breeding strategies

Mohar Singh is a Senior Scientist in the field of plant breeding at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources Regional Station in Shimla, India. He received his doctoral degree in Plant Breeding from the Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University in Palampur, India. He has been working on the genetic and genomic resources of pulses for the past several years and has identified useful gene sources for different traits of interest in wild lentil and chickpea species, some of which have since been introgressed into the cultivated background for diversification of cultivated gene pool. Dr. Singh has published more than 75 research papers in journals of national and international repute and also holds two textbooks and four edited books to his credit, published by Elsevier Insight, Academic Press and Springer.

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