Abstract Chickpea is one of the world’s largest cultivated food legumes and is an excellent source of high‐quality protein to the human diet. Plant growth and development are controlled by programmed expression of a suite of genes at the...
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Breeding high nutritional varieties of chickpea and pigeonpea just got easier. With new technology, genomic processes that could have taken years, have been completed in just a few months. This has been possible by work of scientists from the...
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Looking at nutrition from the view of the microbiome in human and soil systems may provide answers to tackle malnutrition in Asia and Africa. Agricultural and medical researchers and doctors from around the world came together from March 22 – 24...
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Original article by mongabay The chickpea gene expression atlas could help deploy genetic information to raise productivity and boost climate resilience in chickpea and other food legumes. The atlas can be applied for identification of genes that...
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Abstract There have been intense debates over the geographic origin of African crops and agriculture. Here, we used whole-genome sequencing data to infer the domestication origin of pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus). Our results supported an...
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A series of four books that focus on the subject of crop improvement and genomics that make a significant contribution to this area of work has been authored by ICRISAT scientists. The ICRISAT Governing Board released the four books, The Chickpea...
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Receives American Society of Agronomy fellowship for contributions to Genomics & Molecular breeding Hyderabad, 22 November 2018: The American Society of Agronomy (ASA) conferred its prestigious 2018 fellowship to Dr Rajeev K Varshney...
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Dr Lee Hickey, University of Queensland, elaborating on Speed Breeding at the symposium. Photo: S Punna, ICRISAT Scientists from varied areas of crop research called for a mix of molecular techniques to accelerate genetic gains and meet the...
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FeFA, an ICRISAT and ICMR-NIN joint initiative will address malnutrition and follow a systematic approach for understanding adolescent girls’ health needs in Telangana In order to address malnutrition among adolescents, ICMR-National Institute of...
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Research also maps the center of origin and migration route of chickpea Original post: ICRISAT Press release Hyderabad, 30 April 2019: In a major breakthrough, scientists from 21 research institutes globally, have successfully completed...
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Abstract We report a map of 4.97 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the chickpea from whole-genome resequencing of 429 lines sampled from 45 countries. We identified 122 candidate regions with 204 genes under selection during chickpea...
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Original Post: India Science Wire Peanuts address nutritional demands in underdeveloped countries as they are a rich source of proteins and fatty acids. In a significant development, an international team of researchers led by plant geneticists...
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