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Recent developments in Lablab purpureus genomics: A focus on drought stress tolerance and use of genomic resources to develop stress-resilient varieties
This research article published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021Drought is a major climatic challenge that contributes significantly to the decline of
food productivity. One of the strategies to overcome this challenge is the use of
drought-tolerant crops with a wide range of benefits. Lablab is a leguminous crop
that has been showing high promise to drought tolerance. It is reported to have
higher drought resilience compared with the commonly cultivated legumes such as
common beans and cowpeas. Because of its great genetic diversity, Lablab can
withstand high temperature and low rainfall, unlike other related crops. On top of
that, it is grown for multitudes of purposes including food, forages, conservation
agriculture, and improved soil fertility. To enhance its production and benefits during
the present effects of climate change, it is crucial to develop improved varieties that
would overcome the challenge of drought stress. In the past years, there have been
several reviews on Lablab based on origin, domestication, characterization, utilization,
germplasm conservation, some cultivation constraints, and conventional breeding
with limitations on the genomic exploitation of the crop for drought tolerance.
Conventional breeding is the major breeding technique for many Lablab cultivars.
The integration of genomic, physiological, biochemical, and molecular approaches
would be required to develop drought-tolerant cultivars of Lablab. In this review, we
discuss recent developments in Lablab genomics with a focus on drought stress
tolerance and the use of genomic resources to develop stress-resilient varieties