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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. Besides being 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.

Chickpea. --- Bengal gram --- Chestnut bean --- Chich --- Chich-pea --- Chick-pea --- Cicer arietinum --- Dwarf pea --- Garavance --- Garbanzo --- Gram (Legume) --- Gram pea --- Pea, Chick --- Life sciences. --- Agriculture. --- Plant breeding. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Cicer --- Plant genetics. --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Crops --- Agriculture --- Breeding --- Plants --- Genetics

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The book by M. Imran Kozgar aims to cover the problems of mutation breeding in pulse crops in the light of issues related to food insecurity and malnutrition, which according to FAO are the major threats at the present time. So far the research on induction of mutation in pulse crops is negligible compared to cereal crops, though the pulse crops and especially the chickpea are the largest grown crops in India. The main objective of the book is to reveal and explore the possibility of inducing genetic variability in early generations of mutated chickpea, describe the positive aspects of mutagenic treatments, evaluate the content of mineral elements (iron, manganese, zinc and copper) and physiological parameters of isolated high yielding mutant lines. The author hopes that his book will help to advance studies on pulse crops, and that in the long term it will help to reduce the food insecurity and malnutrition problems presently persisting in various developing countries, including India.

Chickpea --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Plant Sciences --- Bengal gram --- Chestnut bean --- Chich --- Chich-pea --- Chick-pea --- Cicer arietinum --- Dwarf pea --- Garavance --- Garbanzo --- Gram (Legume) --- Gram pea --- Pea, Chick --- Cicer --- Mutation breeding --- Mutation breeding. --- pulse crops, chickpea, mutation breeding, effectiveness of mutagenic treatments, bioavailability of minerals, physiological parameters of mutant lines.