Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 3: Food Legumes

Accelerated breeding for the world’s essential food legumes

Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 3: Food Legumes is an edited reference for readers who want a serious, research-led look at how pulse and legume improvement is being sped up through modern breeding science. The book brings together crop-specific and method-focused chapters that connect conventional breeding with newer tools designed to shorten the path from germplasm to improved cultivar.

The emphasis is practical as well as scientific. Rather than treating breeding as a single technique, the volume shows how approaches such as marker-assisted selection, genomic selection, high-throughput genotyping and phenotyping, doubled haploidy, mutation breeding, transgenic breeding, shuttle breeding, and speed breeding can work together to improve food legumes more efficiently.

What the volume covers

The book focuses on major food legumes and pulses, including chickpea, pigeon pea, lentil, green gram, urdbean, common bean, field pea, soybean, and horse gram. That crop range makes the volume especially useful for readers who need both a broad overview of legume breeding priorities and a crop-by-crop perspective on breeding progress and challenges.

• Accelerated methods for germplasm enhancement
• Strategies for improving yield, stress tolerance, and trait gain
• Breeding tools that support faster cultivar development
• Legume-focused chapters grounded in contemporary research

A strong fit for researchers and advanced students

This is the kind of book that suits plant breeding researchers, crop scientists, agricultural biotechnologists, and graduate-level readers looking for a current synthesis of food legume improvement. It is also a useful reference for anyone working at the intersection of genetics, genomics, and sustainable crop production.

Why it stands out

Food legumes are central to protein security, soil health, and resilient cropping systems. This volume treats them with the attention they deserve, combining crop importance with the breeding technologies now shaping faster and more precise improvement programs. For readers following the shift from conventional breeding timelines to accelerated plant improvement, this title offers a focused and substantive guide.