Breeding strategies to improve lentil for diverse agro-ecological environments
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Authors
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Jitendra Kumar
Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur 208 024
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Sunanda Gupta
Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur 208 024
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Priyanka Gupta
Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur 208 024
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Sonali Dubey
Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur 208 024
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Ram Sewak Singh Tomar
ICAR-National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, IARI Campus, New Delhi 110 012
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Shiv Kumar
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Rabat-Institutes, B.P. 6299, Rabat, Morocco
Abstract
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.