Climate Change and Management of Cool Season Grain Legume Crops
Legumes are a major source of food, nutrition and feed worldwide particularly in developing nations. Climate change is likely to exacerbate the effects of heat and drought stress in the future as well as push legumes production into more marginal lands. T
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Shyam Singh Yadav · David L. McNeil · Robert Redden · Sharanagouda A. Patil Editors
Climate Change and Management of Cool Season Grain Legume Crops
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Editors Dr. Shyam Singh Yadav, FLS Program Leader- Rice & Grains National Agricultural Research Institute Momase Regional Research Centre (Bubia) Sir Alkan Tololo Research Centre P.O. Box 1639, LAE 411, Morobe Province Papua New Guinea [email protected] Dr. Robert Redden Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection Horsham VIC 3401 Australia [email protected]
Dr. David L. McNeil University of Tasmania Tasmanian Inst. Agricultural Research Hobart TAS 7001 Australia [email protected]
Dr. Sharanagouda A. Patil Chairman, Karnataka Krishi Mission Former Director, IARI, New Delhi Vice-Chancellor, UAS, Dharwad Present Office Address Commissionarate of Agriculture Premises # 1, Sheshadri Road, Bengalooru-560 001
General Note: References to any chemical control products, uses and operations in this book should not be considered an endorsement of their use in areas for which they have not been approved. Their incorporation here is to provide information on research that has been carried out and not to propose their use where not registered. All the information contained in this book is for reference study purpose only and for information, and is not an endorsement for use or practice by the Editors or Authors.
ISBN 978-90-481-3708-4 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3709-1 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3709-1 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010924292 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover illustrations: Sunset at Mungo Lunette, © Dirk HR Spennemann (www.ausphoto.net) 2009 and Double Treat, © Gert van Duinen (www.gertvanduinen.nl) 2009 Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Dry pea (Pisum sativum), chickpea (Cicer arietinum), broad bean (Vicia faba), lentil (Lens culinaris), lupins (Lupinus spp.) grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) and common vetch (Vicia sativa) are the major cool season grain legume crops which grow on all continents except Antarctica in more than 100 countries. These cool season grain legume crops are ancient crops of modern times and their cultivation dates back to the pre-historic time. Due to their high nutritional value and cultivation under poor environments mainly in dry ecologies, they are an integral part of daily dietary system of millions of people around the world. These cool season legume crops dominate international markets as their trading is more than US $1,200 million an
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