1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996216213903316

Titolo

Journal of business and management

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carson, Calif., : School of Management, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

658

Soggetti

Business

Management

Affaires

Gestion

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Published: Fort Collins, CO : Western Decision Sciences Institute, and the Management Dept., Colorado State University, <fall 2000->



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255458303321

Titolo

The Chickpea Genome / / edited by Rajeev K. Varshney, Mahendar Thudi, Fred Muehlbauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-66117-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 142 p. 28 illus.)

Collana

Compendium of Plant Genomes, , 2199-479X

Disciplina

635.657

Soggetti

Plant genetics

Plant biotechnology

Agriculture

Plant Genetics

Plant Biotechnology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

The Chickpea Genome: An Introduction -- Economic importance of chickpea: production, value and world trade -- Botany of chickpea -- Cytogenetics of Cicer -- Managing and Discovering Agronomically Beneficial Traits in Chickpea Germplasm Collections -- Advances in chickpea genomic resources for accelerating the crop improvement  -- Classical genetics and gene mapping -- Genetic mapping and quantitative trait loci -- Requirement of whole-genome sequencing and background history of the national and international genome initiatives -- Sequencing the Chickpea Genome -- Impact of Genomics on Chickpea Breeding -- Future Prospects for Chickpea Research.

Sommario/riassunto

This book sheds new light on the chickpea genome sequencing and resequencing of chickpea germplasm lines and provides insights into classical genetics, cytogenetics, and trait mapping. It also offers an overview of the latest advances in genome sequencing and analysis. The growing human population, rapid climate changes and limited amounts of arable land are creating substantial challenges in connection with the availability and affordability of nutritious food for smallholder farmers in developing countries. In this context, climate



smart crops are essential to alleviating the hunger of the millions of poor and undernourished people living in developing countries. In addition to cereals, grain legumes are an integral part of the human diet and provide sustainable income for smallholder farmers in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Among grain legumes, the chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is the second most important in terms of production and productivity. Besidesbeing a rich source of proteins, it can fix atmospheric nitrogen through symbiosis with rhizobia and increase the input of combined nitrogen. Several abiotic stresses like drought, heat, salinity, together with biotic stresses like Fusarium wilt, Ascochyta blight, and Botrytis grey mould have led to production losses, as the chickpeas is typically grown in the harsh climates of our planet’s semi-arid regions.