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Grass Pea (Lathyrus sativus)
Publication: Potential Pulses: Genetic and Genomic Resources
pp. 116-131
Abstract
Grass pea is an important dual-purpose legume crop. It is one of the hardiest legume crops that can survive and yield under extreme conditions such as drought, problematic soils, floods, and resistance to several pests and diseases. Despite its climate resilience and high protein content, the crop has not attained commercial status mainly due to the problematic existence of oxalyldiaminopropionic acid (ODAP), a neurotoxin, in the seeds and fodder that causes neurolathyrism. Several thousands of grass pea collections are available at national and international gene banks. These have been evaluated and characterized for many agronomically important traits and low ODAP content. Recent advances in next-generation sequencing approaches have made it possible to assemble the large-scale genome of grass pea successfully, offering an array of opportunities to develop suitable marker systems for accelerated breeding for desired traits. Globally, efforts are underway for the genetic enhancement of grass pea using modern genomic tools such as molecular markers and functional genomic approaches, and the most recent genome editing tools promise to provide potential solutions to lower the ODAP content and enhance the other economically essential features.
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Biographies
Dr Rahul Chandora is working as a Scientist (Senior Scale) at the ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Shimla. He has been serving as the curator of potential crops (adzuki bean, rice bean, amaranth, buckwheat, and chenopod) and is involved in the Plant Genetic Resource (PGR) management of legumes & pseudocereals which includes germplasm augmentation, characterization, evaluation (screening against biotic stresses, molecular, nutritional profiling), conservation as well as documentation and database curation for storage. He is trained in the use of molecular and bioinformatic techniques in plant genetics. He is the main developer of two varieties (one variety of Quinoa, 'Him Shakti' and one variety of Buckwheat, 'Him Phaphra') that were released and notified by the CVRC (Central Sub-Committee on Crop Standards Notification and Release of Varieties) in 2021. Him Shakti is the first variety of quinoa to be released in India. He has also established two Community Seed Banks (CSBs) in Himachal Pradesh, India. It is also worth noting that he was a part of the team that identified and registered two genetic stocks, INGR21103 & INGR21136 of French bean that are resistance to Bean Common Mosaic Virus. He is also handling various institutional and externally-funded projects as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator.
Dr Basavaraja, T. started his career as a Scientist at the ICAR- Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur-208024 (India). He has seven-year of research experience in grain legume genetics and breeding and gained extensive conceptual knowledge in the diverse domain of Genetics, Cytogenetics, Crop Breeding, Population genetics, and Crop Biotechnology. Presently, He is working on genetic enhancement of pulse crops such as Common bean and Mung bean. He was an associated breeder and developer for developing high-yielding high yielding mung bean cultivars viz., IPM 512-1 (Soorya), IPM 312-20 (Vasudha) & IPM 409-4 (Heera). He procured and collected more than 2000 germplasm accessions of common bean from national & international gene banks. He contributed to the development of eight genetic stocks (4, common bean & 4, Mung bean) for BCMV disease resistance, yellow seeded & Bruchid resistance. He is actively working as a project leader in two externally funded projects (the DST-SERB project and Alliance Bioversity International-CIAT Common bean project). For his remarkable contribution to agricultural science, he received a young scientist award in the scientist award ceremony at Lucknow University (Uttar Pradesh).
Dr Aditya Pratap, born on October 18, 1976, is working as Principal Scientist in the Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur (IIPR). Holding a brilliant academic and service record, he has worked on genetic improvement of crop plants including Vigna species, wheat, triticale, rapeseed-mustard and chickpea. He has been associated with the development and release of 14 crop varieties including 9 in green gram, 1 in chickpea, 3 in rapeseed-mustard and one in facultative winter wheat including world's first earliest variety of mungbean, Virat, which matures in 52-55 days. He has executed several national and international collaborative projects as a team leader and successfully established the "International Mung bean Improvement Network" along with several international partners. To his credit, he has >190 publications including research papers in several high-impact journals. He has edited 6 books published by Springer, CABI and Elsevier. His research interests include distant hybridization, doubled haploidy breeding, plant tissue culture and molecular breeding. He is the recipient of the prestigious Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship, USA and also the ICAR-Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award. The mung bean improvement programme led by him at the IIPR has won him the Best Centre Award 2018. He is on board several reputed international research journals including Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Genetics, PLOS One, BMC Plant Biology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution besides being the General Secretary of the Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development.
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