Chickpea Genome Sequenced
NEW DELHI - Jan 28/13 - SNS -- A team which inclused researchers from India, Canada, Australia, the United States, China, and Mexico mapped the full genetic sequence for the CDC Frontier chickpea variety and published in Nature Biotechnology.
The paper prepared by the researchers noted, "Resequencing and analysis of 90 cultivated and wild genotypes from ten countries identifies targets of both breeding-associated genetic sweeps and breeding-associated balancing selection.
"Candidate genes for disease resistance and agronomic traits are highlighted, including traits that distinguish the two main market classes of cultivated chickpeadesi and kabuli. These data comprise a resource for chickpea improvement through molecular breeding and provide insights into both genome diversity and domestication."
It is hoped that having sequenced the chickpea genome, plant breeders will be able to develop higher yielding, disease resistant new varieties more quickly. The full paper, including the genome sequence is available at: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.2491.html
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