Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) a Crop of Future for Sustainable Agriculture in The Changing Environmental Conditions

Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) is an ideal pulse crop for sustainable agriculture due to its superior agronomic traits such as deep penetrating root system, resistance many biotic and abiotic stresses rich protein content. Even with these traits, the considered orphan lower productivity presence of neurotoxin, b-N-ozalyl-L-adiamino-propanoic acid (ODAP). By following classical mutational breeding approaches scientists have developed varieties ODAP (< 0.06 %) efforts are underway reduce it zero. However, till date, there limited biotechnological research in Lathyrus sativus targeted improvement unavailability genome sequence. The recently published draft sequence European accession (LS007) important breakthrough this would help developing neuro toxin higher productivity. In review, resilience crops various stresses, latest genetic tools L. sativus, discussed.