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Legume Breeding and Genetic Improvement for Adaptation ... - MDPI

In order to meet future food and feed needs, it is essential to enhance their resilience to individual or combined abiotic stresses. Please share your success ...

Genetic improvement of legume roots for adaption to acid soils

As legumes, soybean (Glycine max) plants may acquire nitrogen (N) through symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF), an adaptation that can be useful for mitigating ...

Editorial: Legume breeding in transition: innovation and outlook

The genetic improvement of major and underutilized legume crops ... In legume breeding, yield stability and adaptability are of prime.

The genetic improvement of forage grasses and legumes to reduce ...

Plant breeding has been successful at increasing the yield, persistency and stress tolerance of the major grasses and legumes of many gra sslands in the world.

Gene-Editing Technologies and Applications in Legumes

The current focus is on accelerating genetic gains related to yield, stress tolerance, and nutritional quality. Most genetic improvement of legumes has been ...

Legume Genomics: From Genomic Resources to Molecular Breeding

In addition, legumes have the capability to fix atmospheric N2 with the help of symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria in root nodules, thereby ...

European legume breeding is taken to next level for competitive ...

The project's key objectives are to develop cost-effective breeding tools, improve the economic and regulatory environment for legume breeding.

Special Issue "Legume Breeding and Genetic Improvement for ...

Grain legumes deliver multiple ecosystem services such as protein-based food and feed and the sustainability of agro-ecosystems through their ...

Adapting legume crops to climate change using genomic approaches

In addition to these adaptive traits, climate change is also forcing us to breed for novel traits. For example, genes that limit the production of methane in ...

Genomics, genetics and breeding of tropical legumes for better ...

Integrated breeding approaches for improving drought and heat adaptation in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) A review of integrated breeding approaches that ...

Legume Breeding for the Agroecological Transition of Global Agri ...

Reducing the profitability gap of legumes relative to major cereals will not be possible in Europe without public funding devoted to crop improvement research, ...

Breeding for genetic improvement of forage plants in relation to ...

Selective forage plant breeding has supported crop improvement for nearly a century. Early plant breeding programmes were successful in terms of yield gains.

Genetic Improvement in Leguminous Crops Through Genome Editing

Over the years the genetic improvement of legumes has been carried out using conventional techniques of breeding based on the QTL and MAS selection mainly to ...

Accelerating genetic gains in legumes for the development of ...

Selection intensity, generation interval, and improved operational efficiencies in breeding are expected to further enhance the genetic gain in experimental ...

Enhancing Legume Cultivars through Agronomy, Breeding, and ...

Over the last few decades, numerous research projects have been conducted for the genetic improvements of legumes, in order to meet the ...

Giving momentum to legume breeding | EUCLEG Project - CORDIS

Improving genetic progress. EUCLEG focused on the five most cultivated legume species in Europe: two forages, alfalfa and red clover, and three ...

(PDF) The Genetic Improvement of Forage Grasses and Legumes to ...

In this paper we summarize the targets and approaches plant breeding programmes should adopt to enable grasslands to adapt to climate change whilst realizing ...

Plant breeding is needed to meet agroecological requirements

Legume-based cropping systems are regaining interest due to the environmental services and the variety of food and feed uses they provide, ...

Development of Molecular Tools for Breeding in Legume Species

Breeding for climate resilience as well as other high value traits in pulse legumes will be greatly accelerated if we can expand the range of adaptations ...

Prebreeding Using Wild Species for Genetic Enhancement of Grain ...

Like many other major crops, ICRISAT's mandate grain legume crops have a narrow genetic base. The production and productivity of these crops ...