Transgenics for Improving Salt Stress Tolerance in Legume Crops Chickpea and Pigeon Pea

Year 2021, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 106 - 115, 01.07.2021

Pushpa Kharb Rinku Chaudhary Nita Lakra Rishi Kumar Behl

Abstract

Legumes, being rich in proteins, are an important part of human diet and account for about 27 per cent of crop production
around the globe. Chickpea and Pigeon pea are the two mos t important legume crops of India. However, production
in legume crops is adversely affected due to salinity in arid and semi-arid regions of world. Salt s tress reduces water
potential, creates imbalance in ion concentration and causes toxicity. Helicases (RuvB & p68) have been shown to play
an important role in plants agains t salt s tress. p68 which is a DEAD-box helicase interacts with Ca2+ -CaM. LecRLK is
another important gene involved in regulating diverse signalling pathways under salt s tress condition in plants. The present
review highlights the role of salinity s tress tolerance by these helicases and lectin receptor kinases genes by developing
transgenic chickpea and pigeon pea lines.

Keywords

Chickpea, helicases, LecRLK, legume, pigeon pea, salinity, transgenics

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