Developing Climate Resilient Grain and Forage Legumes

Chapter 1. Improving chickpea genetic gain under rising drought and heat stress using breeding approaches and modern technologies.- Chapter 2. Breeding chickpea for climate resilience: An overview.- Chapter 3. Reduction of Phytic Acid and Enhancement of Bioavailable Micronutrients in Common Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Changing Climatic Scenario.- Chapter 4. Developing climate resilient Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L].Walp) through genomics-assisted breeding approaches.- Chapter 5. Fenugreek, a legume spice and multi-use crop adapted to a changing climate.- Chapter 6. Grass pea an inherent abiotic stress  tolerant legume: Current status and future scope under changing environment.- Chapter 7. Breeding groundnut cultivars for resilience to climate change effects.- Chapter 8. Horse gram, an underutilized climate-resilient legume: Breeding and genomic approach for improving future genetic gain.-Chapter 9. Understanding abiotic stress responses in lentil under changing climate regimes.- Chapter 10. Approaches towards developing heat and drought tolerance in Mungbean.- Chapter 11. A Review on Stress Physiology and Breeding Potential of an underutilized, multipurpose legume: Rice Bean (Vigna umbellata).- Chapter 12. Physiological Traits Based Breeding to Achieve Higher Yield in soybean Crop.- Chapter 13. Sunnhemp-A Climate Smart Crop.

Dr. Uday C Jha graduated from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. He is working in the area of grain legume breeding, genetics, and genomics for abiotic stress tolerance since 2010 at the Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, ICAR, India. He has more than 32 peered-reviewed international publications and 1 edited book. He has attended and delivered oral and poster presentation in various national and international conferences. He is associated in developing six chickpea varieties. Dr. Jha was awarded with ISPRD fellowship in 2016 by the Indian Society of Pulses & Research Development (ISPRD) and Young Scientist Award by IJBSM society in 2017 at Jaipur India. He has also received the Chickpea Team Award in 2020 from IIPR, Kanpur. He is serving as editorial board member of the journal BMC Plant Biology.

 

Professor Harsh Nayyar is currently a professor in the Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He graduated from Punjab Agricultural University, India, and worked at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and H.P. Agricultural University, Palampur, India, prior to his present position. His research program aims to study the responses of various food legumes such as chickpea, lentil, mungbean, and urdbean to abiotic stresses like heat, drought, and cold as well as their combination. He is developing convenient and easy screening methods to identify stress-tolerant legumes and also investigating the mechanisms at various organizational levels underlying stress tolerance. He has published about 140 research papers in peer-reviewed high impact factor research journals.

 

Dr Shiv Kumar holds a Ph.D. in plant breeding from the GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. His area of expertise includes crop improvement through resistance breeding, widening the genetic base through pre-breeding, and development of genetic and genomic resources in food legumes.