Breeding Advances in Legume Diversification and Biofortification
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (14 December 2022) | Viewed by 5482
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Interests: legumes; biofortification; genomics; transcriptomics; metabolomics; breeding; molecular markers; seed- plant-phenotyping; genotyping; mineral composition; landracesa
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Dear Colleagues,
Legumes are indispensable to nutrition, agriculture, industry, and economy and to environment sustainability. Legumes as pulses constitute a staple food to a large part of the world population, providing protein, vitamins, and minerals. Thus, legumes represent suitable candidates for biofortification to combat the “hidden hunger” of vitamins and minerals that challenge more than 2 billion people and to improve their nutritional quality and bioavailability.
On the other hand, legumes are integral constituents of rotation systems in agriculture improving soil fertility and structure, as well as productivity of sequential crops. Hence, legumes sustain and improve soil diversity, as well as ecosystem services. Given that climate change threatens food security, efforts are centred to confine the chemical and energy inputs in agriculture towards a green growth and development. Consequently, legumes constitute exceptional crops to foster plant-protein food production, ecosystem services and resilient biodiversity to support human health and sustainable natural resources. Legumes diversification and biofortification are central to meet this potential. The recent progress in legume genome sequencing for more than 45 species, including major pulse crops, such as soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.), common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.), chickpea (Cicer arietinum), lentil (Lens culinaris), lupin (Lupinus angustifolius L. and Lupinus albus L.), mung bean (V. radiata var. radiata), pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), and peanut (Arachis hypogaea) have paved the way for rapid advancements.
Contemporary and innovative technologies counting genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, phenomics, and others, are implemented in agriculture and in plant research to gain insight of molecular mechanisms and metabolic pathways to safeguard and improve legumes and pulses nutritional value. Nowadays, legumes diversity is central to agriculture, molecular -omics and breeding technologies towards legumes farming diversification and biofortification to instigate legumes food expansion in support of human health and rural communities’ sustainable development.
The SI will collect research articles, reviews and opinion articles linked to all the aforementioned issues.
Dr. Photini V. Mylona
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- legumes
- pulses
- biofortification
- genomics
- metabolomics
- molecular markers
- agronomic practices
- breeding technologies
- food security
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