Lentil plays an important role for food and nutritional security. It is a sustainable source of protein, zinc, iron, prebiotic carbohydrates, diverse health-promoting nutrients. This crop widely cultivated in semi-arid marginal areas exposed to various environmental stressors. Drought stress the major abiotic that causes serious effects on lentil growth development. Thus, it imperative set up i...

Assessment of genetic diversity and population structure of germplasm collections plays a critical role in supporting conservation and crop genetic enhancement strategies. We used a cultivated lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) collection consisting of 352 accessions originating from 54 diverse countries to estimate genetic diversity and genetic structure using 1194 polymorphic single nucleotide po...

Eight genotypes of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) were tested for bioaccumulation and transport of arsenic (As) in a pot experiment under controlled growth condition. Along with control (no As was added), plants were grown for 60 d in pot soil spiked with 100 mg As kg, added as Sodium arsenate. Significant (P < 0.05) variations among eight genotypes were observed in bioaccumulation and transpor...

establishment of an efficient and reproducible regeneration protocol is one of the basic prerequisites for genetic transformation of any crop plant. in vitro culture of lentil has proven to be difficult. in spite of a number of reports on the regeneration of this plant, very few satisfying and reproducible protocol has yet been reported. this study carried out for investigation of different hor...

Background: Lentil is the top cultivated pulse crop in Bangladesh. Even if there are a number of modern high yielding varieties (HYV) with all natural favorable conditions and resources for cultivation but due to lack available stress climate (biotic abiotic) resilient variety; potential yield this rarely met. Against huge sum demand supply deficit country which met by importing. Reflecting sit...