1Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Regional Research and Technology Transfer Station, Keonjhar-758 002, Odisha, India.
2Division of Forest Protection, ICFRE-Arid Forest Research Institute, Jodhpur-342 005, Rajasthan, India.
3AICRP on MULLaRP, MARS, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad-580 005, Karnataka, India.
4Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow-226 002, Uttar Pradesh, India.
5Department of Agronomy, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Regional Research and Technology Transfer Station, Keonjhar-758 002, Odisha, India.
6Division of Entomology Regional Research, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi-110 012, India.
*Corresponding Author: Prasanta Kumar Majhi, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Regional Research and Technology Transfer Station, Keonjhar-758 002, Odisha, India, Email: prasantakumarmajhi53@gmail.com
Online Published on 02 September, 2022.
Mungbean is one of the most important grain legumes with high-quality dietary protein in India as well in many other Asian countries. But the crop is severely affected by bruchids (Callosobruchus spp.) from field to storage condition. These storage pests not only affect the yield but also reduce the market value and quality of the crops. The chemical method of bruchid management is not economical and environmentally unsafe. So, the host-plant resistance to bruchids would be the best alternative and most sustainable way to control the bruchid. A very limited number of wild accessions and cultivated genotypes are available for the transfer of bruchid resistance gene through conventional breeding. Thus, insights into the molecular mechanism of resistance will help to find out the resistance genes/QTLs easily with the support of available genome sequence and that can be introgressed to the cultivated varieties through marker-assisted backcross breeding (MABB) approach. Therefore, in this review, we focused on QTL mapping, identification of novel QTLs, marker assisted-selection, genomics and transcriptomics study by using advanced molecular tools which will be very helpful for genomic-assisted breeding in mungbean for bruchid resistance.
Bruchid, Genomics, Marker, Mungbean, QTLs, Transcriptomics
