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A comprehensive review on genetic resistance of chickpea to ascochyta blight

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Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the most valued legumes because of its nutritional value and global cultivation in more than fifty countries. Ascochyta blight is the devastating disease that substantially reduces crop yield and creates a wide gap between its demand and production. Several approaches are utilized for disease management, but all have limited effectiveness. The key to manage this challenge is to understand and exploit the genetic resistance and develop more durable cultivars for the future. The available resistance sources provide partial resistance while high variability in the pathogen population makes chickpea prone to many races of Ascochyta. Much has been carried out to understand the genetics of ascochyta blight resistance since the last quarter of twentieth century including the identification and map** of various genomic regions associated with plant resistance. An absolute understanding of the genetic basis of chickpea resistance to Ascochyta rabiei seems highly variable depending upon the choice of chickpea genotype and A. rabiei pathotype used in the experiments. Recently a notable shift to expression studies of resistance genes has been observed but this is the least-explored aspect to date. However, the mechanism of genetic resistance is still largely unclear and a more focused and integrated approach utilizing advanced technologies is required. This review provides comprehensive insight into the genetic understanding of ascochyta blight from past to present and sheds light on challenges along with exploration of future directions. The available information in this context was reviewed critically with identification of gap points, to help the researchers to draw their own conclusions, and accordingly plan their further contribution to solve this problem at the genetic level.

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Ilyas, A., Mirza, S.A., Hussain, K. et al. A comprehensive review on genetic resistance of chickpea to ascochyta blight. J Plant Pathol 104, 1337–1354 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42161-022-01232-w

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