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Current and future strategies in breeding lentil for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses

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Lentil production is limited by lack of moisture and unfavorable temperatures throughout its distribution. Waterlogging and salinity are only locally important. Progress has been made in breeding for tolerance to drought through selection for an appropriate phenology and increased water use efficiency and in breeding for winter hardiness through selection for cold tolerance.

The diseases rust, vascular wilt, and Ascochyta blight, caused by Uromyces viciae-fabae, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lentis, and Ascochyta fabae f. sp. lentis, respectively, are the key fungal pathogens of lentil. Cultivars with resistance to rust and Ascochyta blight have been released in several countries and resistant sources to vascular wilt are being exploited. Sources of resistance to several other fungal and viral diseases of regional importance are known. In contrast, although the pea leaf weevil (Sitona spp.) and the parasitic weed broomrape (Orobanche spp.), and to a lesser extent the cyst nematode (Heterodera ciceri), are significant yield reducers of lentil, no sources of resistance to these biotic stresses have been found. Directions for future research in lentil on both biotic and abiotic stresses are discussed.

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  1. ICARDA, P. O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria

    W. Erskine & M. C. Saxena

  2. Pulses Research Institute, Ayub, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    M. Tufail

  3. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Private Bag, Christchurch, New Zealand

    A. Russell

  4. Genetics Department, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), 110 012, New Delhi, India

    M. C. Tyagi

  5. Regional Agricultural Research Station, Ishurdi, 6620, Pabna, Bangladesh

    M. M. Rahman

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Erskine, W., Tufail, M., Russell, A. et al. Current and future strategies in breeding lentil for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Euphytica 73, 127–135 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00027189

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