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A Review on Current Status and Future Prospects of Winged Bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) in Tropical Agriculture

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Winged bean, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC., is analogous to soybean in yield and nutritional quality, proving a valuable alternative to soybean in tropical regions of the world. The presence of anti-nutritional factors and high costs associated with indeterminate plant habit have been major concerns in this crop. But occurrence of good genetic variability in germplasm collections offers precious resources for winged bean breeding. However, lack of germplasm characterization is hindering such efforts. From a genomic standpoint, winged bean has been little studied despite rapid advancement in legume genomics in the last decade. Exploiting modern genomics/breeding approaches for genetic resource characterization and the breeding of early maturing, high yielding, determinate varieties which are disease resistant and free of anti-nutritional factors along with develo** consumer friendly value-added products of local significance are great challenges and opportunities in the future that would boost cultivation of winged bean in the tropics. We review past efforts and future prospects towards winged bean improvement.

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Abbreviations

ANFs:

Anti-nutritional factors

ISSR:

Inter simple sequence repeats

KI:

Kunitz type inhibitors

RAPD :

Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA

SSR :

Simple sequence repeats

WBA :

Winged bean albumin

WCI:

Winged bean chymotrypsin inhibitor

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  1. Department of Botany, Sikkim University, 6th Mile, Tadong, Gangtok, Sikkim, 737102, India

    Patrush Lepcha & N. Sathyanarayana

  2. US National Herbarium (US), Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution - NMNH, 10th and Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC, 20013, USA

    Ashley N. Egan

  3. Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, 412 Mann Library, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    Jeff J. Doyle

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Lepcha, P., Egan, A.N., Doyle, J.J. et al. A Review on Current Status and Future Prospects of Winged Bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) in Tropical Agriculture. Plant Foods Hum Nutr 72, 225–235 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11130-017-0627-0

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