Indian Society of Genetics & Plant Breeding

Breeding strategies to improve lentil for diverse agro-ecological environments

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Lentil is an important cool season pulse crops and it is
cultivated world-wide in diverse agro ecological conditions.
Several varieties have been developed adopting
conventional breeding methodologies. Significant progress
in genetic improvement for yield has been made by using
different breeding strategies including molecular marker
based precise breeding strategy in lentil. However, lentil
production and productivity has not increased to its
potential due to several biotic and abiotic stresses affect
its growth and development. Utilization of wild species
may provide useful genes for broadening the genetic base
of lentil in respect of disease resistance, abiotic stresses
and desirable agronomic traits. In present article, we have
reviewed the breeding strategies used for improving lentil
genotypes adapted under diverse agro-climatic conditions.

Keywords: Genetics, short duration, seed size, herbicide, heat tolerance, root traits, lentil

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Year: 2016
Volume: 76
Issue: 4
Article DOI: 10.5958/0975-6906.2016.00071.7
Print ISSN: 0019-5200
Online ISSN: 0975-6906

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Ram Sewak Singh Tomar info_circle
Shiv Kumar info_circle

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