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The Bambara Groundnut Genome: From the Crop to the Genome—The Progress and Constraints of Genome-Related Studies in Bambara Groundnut
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The Bambara Groundnut Genome: From the Crop to the Genome—The Progress and Constraints of Genome-Related Studies in Bambara Groundnut

Luis Salazar-Licea, Kumbirai Ivyne Mateva, Xiuqing Gao, Razlin Azman Halimi, Liliana Andrés-Hernández, Hui Hui Chai, Wai Kuan Ho, Graham J. King, Festo Massawe and Sean Mayes
Underutilised Crop Genomes, pp.189-215
Compendium of Plant Genomes, Springer International Publishing
04/11/2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_11

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Abstract

Bambara groundnut Breeding Food security Genome Molecular markers Underutilised
The combined effects of climate change, increase in world population and dependence on a relatively small selection of crops, are threating the global food security. Despite their limited promotion amongst farmers, seed companies and researchers, underutilised crops could provide alternative sources of nutritionally dense foods and aid in the quest for food production due to their resilience and natural adaptation to marginal environments that could be too harsh for staple crops. Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) is a protein-rich underutilised legume which has also long been recognised to be drought-resistant, capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen and producing yield in marginal soils. As a consequence of the rapid development of genomic technologies and their current accessibility, in this chapter we share the current progress in genomics using molecular tools, an overview of the genome sequence of bambara groundnut, future work incorporating next-generation sequencing technologies and bioinformatics, as well as an example that showcases the importance of linking trait data to the genome to benefit future breeding programmes.

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