Overview
- Presents an overview of mungbean breeding in the last 20 years
- Offers extensive information on mungbean, with a focus on biodiversity, breeding, and genomics
- Provides an update on Vigna genomics that addresses diversity, evolution, adaptation, and genotype–phenotype relationships
Part of the book series: Compendium of Plant Genomes (CPG)
Buy print copy
About this book
This book reports on the current global status of mungbean and its economic importance. Mungbean (Vigna radiata)—also called green gram—is an important food and cash crop in the rice-based farming systems of South and Southeast Asia, but is also grown in other parts of the world. Its short duration, low input requirement and high global demand make mungbean an ideal rotation crop for smallholder farmers. The book describes mungbean collections maintained by various organizations and their utilization, especially with regard to adapting mungbean to new environments. It provides an overview of the progress made in breeding for tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses; nutritional quality enhancement including genomics approaches; and outlines future challenges for mungbean cultivation. In addition, genomic approaches to evaluating the evolutionary relationship between Vigna species and addressing questions concerning domestication, adaptation and genotype–phenotype relationships are also discussed
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (12 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Mungbean Genome
Editors: Ramakrishnan M. Nair, Roland Schafleitner, Suk-Ha Lee
Series Title: Compendium of Plant Genomes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20008-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20007-7Published: 22 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20010-7Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20008-4Published: 21 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2199-4781
Series E-ISSN: 2199-479X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 191
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture