The ultimate aim of genomics research is facilitation of breeding programme for crop improvement. Not much progress has been made in this area in chickpea, as genomic tools have been developed very recently. Nevertheless, some efforts have been initiated at ICRISAT in collaboration with Egerton University (Kenya), LZARD (Tanzania), EIAR (Ethiopia) and IIPR (India) towards marker-assisted back crossing for introgressing a root trait QTL in elite lines. Marker-assisted recurrent selection (MARS) approach is also being used to pyramid superior alleles for drought tolerance.