Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Legumes Volume 7

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals. This is Vol 7, subtitled Legumes, focuses on advances in breeding strategies using both traditional and modern approaches for the improvement of individual legume crops. Included in this volume are Adzuki bean, Black gram, Chickpea Cluster bean, Common bean, Cowpea, Faba bean, Hyacinth bean, Lentil, Mung bean, Pigeonpea and Soybean. This volume is contributed by 57 internationally reputable scientists from 9 countries. Each chapter comprehensively reviews the modern literature on the subject and reflects the authors own experience. 

Preface.- About the Editors.- Contributors.- 1. Adzuki Bean (Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & Ohashi) Breeding; Lixia Wang et al.- 2. Recent Advances in Breeding, Marker Assisted Selection and Genomics of Black Gram [Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper]; Farrukh Azeem et al.- 3. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Cytogenetics, Genetic Diversity and Breeding; Aamir Raina et al.- 4. Cluster Bean [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub] Breeding; Aravind Kumar Jukanti et al.- 5. Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Breeding; Oswalt R. Jimenez.- 6. Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] Breeding; Ousmane Boukar et al.- 7. Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) Breeding; Xuxiao Zong et al.- 8. Hyacinth Bean (Lablab purpureus L. Sweet): Genetics, Breeding and Genomics; Panichayil V. Vaijayanthi et al.- 9. Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) Diversity, Cytogenetics and Breeding; Rafiul Amin Laskar et al.- 10. Mung Bean (Vigna radiate (L.) R. Wilczek) Breeding; Jungmin Ha, Suk-Ha Lee.- 11. Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.): An Ideal Crop for Sustainable Agriculture; Rachit K. Saxena et al.- 12. Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] Breeding: History, Improvement, Production and Future Opportunities; Edwin J. Anderson et al.

Prof. Jameel M. Al-Khayri is a Professor of plant biotechnology affiliated with the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He received B.S. in Biology in 1984 from the University of Toledo, M.S. in Agronomy in 1988, and Ph.D. in Plant Science in 1991 from the University of Arkansas.

Prof. Shri Mohan Jain is a Consultant and Plant Biotechnologist, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; received M. Phil, 1973 and Ph.D., 1978, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Prof. Dennis V. Johnson is a Consultant and Former University Professor. He is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles where he completed his B.A. (1966), M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in geography, with specialization in agriculture and biogeography.