The Mungbean Genome (Compendium of Plant Genomes)

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

Global status and Economic Importance of Mungbean.- Genetic Resources and Utilization.- Breeding Progress and Future challenges-Biotic stresses.- Breeding Progress and Future challenges-Abiotic stresses.- Breeding Progress and Future challenges-Nutritional quality.- Molecular marker resources and their application.- Mungbean Genome and synteny with other genomes.- Resequencing mungbean.- Genomic approaches to biotic stresses.- Genomic approaches to abiotic stresses.- Future prospects and challenges.