Turning up the heat on chickpea yield
Researchers at the University of Queensland are utilizing advanced 'omic' technologies to better understand and breed heat-tolerant chickpeas. By integrating genomics, proteomics, and other data-driven fields, the study aims to overcome limitations in conventional breeding for climate-resilient crops.
Why it matters
Improving crop resilience to heat is critical for global food security as climate change threatens traditional agricultural yields.
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Add to Preferred Sources Credit: CC0 Public Domain A University of Queensland study has outlined a practical pathway for accelerating the development of heat-adapted chickpeas using data from new 'omic' technologies. Ph.D. candidate Callum Jamie said the suite of technologies offered tremendous opportunities to understand how a complex trait like heat tolerance works.
The work is published in the journal Food and Energy Security .
"The narrow genetic diversity in the elite chickpea gene pool has limited conventional breeding's effectiveness for stress tolerance," Jamie said.
"These technologies have improved our capacity to dissect trait architecture and phenotype secondary traits, but their use in chickpeas has been limited."
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