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Developments and Prospects in Imperative Underexploited Vegetable Legumes Breeding: A Review

Vegetable legumes are an essential source of carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals, along with health-promoting bioactive chemicals. The demand for the use of either fresh or processed vegetable legumes is continually expanding on account of the growing consumer awareness about their well-balanced d...

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Autores principales: Dhaliwal, Sandeep Kaur, Talukdar, Akshay, Gautam, Ashish, Sharma, Pankaj, Sharma, Vinay, Kaushik, Prashant
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7766301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33348635
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21249615
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author Dhaliwal, Sandeep Kaur
Talukdar, Akshay
Gautam, Ashish
Sharma, Pankaj
Sharma, Vinay
Kaushik, Prashant
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Talukdar, Akshay
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Sharma, Pankaj
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description Vegetable legumes are an essential source of carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals, along with health-promoting bioactive chemicals. The demand for the use of either fresh or processed vegetable legumes is continually expanding on account of the growing consumer awareness about their well-balanced diet. Therefore, sustaining optimum yields of vegetable legumes is extremely important. Here we seek to present d etails of prospects of underexploited vegetable legumes for food availability, accessibility, and improved livelihood utilization. So far research attention was mainly focused on pulse legumes’ performance as compared to vegetable legumes. Wild and cultivated vegetable legumes vary morphologically across diverse habitats. This could make them less known, underutilized, and underexploited, and make them a promising potential nutritional source in developing nations where malnutrition still exists. Research efforts are required to promote underexploited vegetable legumes, for improving their use to feed the ever-increasing population in the future. In view of all the above points, here we have discussed underexploited vegetable legumes with tremendous potential; namely, vegetable pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), cluster bean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), dolichos bean (Lablab purpureus), and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), thereby covering the progress related to various aspects such as pre-breeding, molecular markers, quantitative trait locus (QTLs), genomics, and genetic engineering. Overall, this review has summarized the information related to advancements in the breeding of vegetable legumes which will ultimately help in ensuring food and nutritional security in developing nations.
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spelling pubmed-77663012020-12-28 Developments and Prospects in Imperative Underexploited Vegetable Legumes Breeding: A Review Dhaliwal, Sandeep Kaur Talukdar, Akshay Gautam, Ashish Sharma, Pankaj Sharma, Vinay Kaushik, Prashant Int J Mol Sci Review Vegetable legumes are an essential source of carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals, along with health-promoting bioactive chemicals. The demand for the use of either fresh or processed vegetable legumes is continually expanding on account of the growing consumer awareness about their well-balanced diet. Therefore, sustaining optimum yields of vegetable legumes is extremely important. Here we seek to present d etails of prospects of underexploited vegetable legumes for food availability, accessibility, and improved livelihood utilization. So far research attention was mainly focused on pulse legumes’ performance as compared to vegetable legumes. Wild and cultivated vegetable legumes vary morphologically across diverse habitats. This could make them less known, underutilized, and underexploited, and make them a promising potential nutritional source in developing nations where malnutrition still exists. Research efforts are required to promote underexploited vegetable legumes, for improving their use to feed the ever-increasing population in the future. In view of all the above points, here we have discussed underexploited vegetable legumes with tremendous potential; namely, vegetable pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), cluster bean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), dolichos bean (Lablab purpureus), and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), thereby covering the progress related to various aspects such as pre-breeding, molecular markers, quantitative trait locus (QTLs), genomics, and genetic engineering. Overall, this review has summarized the information related to advancements in the breeding of vegetable legumes which will ultimately help in ensuring food and nutritional security in developing nations. MDPI 2020-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7766301/ /pubmed/33348635 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21249615 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Developments and Prospects in Imperative Underexploited Vegetable Legumes Breeding: A Review
title_sort developments and prospects in imperative underexploited vegetable legumes breeding: a review
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