Designing chickpea for a hotter drier world

Abstract Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the most important grain legumes in world, but its current and future production threatened due to increased incidence drought heat stress. To address this challenge, an integrated crop improvement strategy encompassing breeding, genomics, physiology agronomy required. Here, we review physiological traits known confer adaptation chickpea identify areas research that may be prioritised future. Furthermore, underscore approaches efficiently phenotype highlight significant challenges importance understanding nexus between canopy root development. Finally, present opportunity adopt multi-trait genomic prediction utilise key traits, can assayed using high-throughput phenotyping platforms, accelerate genetic gain prone environments.