This book describes the concepts strategies and techniques for pulse-crop improvement in the
era of climate change highlighting the latest advances in plant molecular mapping and genome
sequencing. Genetic mapping of genes and QTLs has broadened the scope of marker-assisted
breeding and map-based cloning in almost all major pulse crops. Genetic transformation
particularly using alien genes conferring resistance to herbicide insects and diseases has
facilitated the development of a huge number of genetically modified varieties of the major
pulse crops. Since the genome sequencing of rice in 2002 genomes of over 7 pulse crops have
been sequenced. This has resulted in the possibility of deciphering the exact nucleotide
sequence and chromosomal positions of agroeconomic genes. Most importantly comparative
genomics and genotyping-by-sequencing has opened up a new vista for exploring wild crop
relatives for identification of useful donor genes.
