The Lentil Genome : Academic Press : 9780443194092 : 0443194092 : 07 Mar 2024 : The Lentil Genome is a comprehensive volume providing information on this important legume from the economic importance to the latest in sequencing. It includes botanical descriptions, discussion of lentil genetics, cytogenetics and breeding, molecular mapping genes and QTLs, as well as structural and functional genomics, genome sequencing, assembly, repetitive genome, gene annotation, and synteny.Lentil [Lens culinaris ssp. culinaris Medikus] is among the earliest domesticates from the Near-East Fertile Crescent. Being a high value crop, lentil plays a vital role in nutritional wellbeing as well as in generating livelihood for the small-scale farmers in the dryland agricultural ecosystems of South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, and North Africa. The classical plant breeding approach of selection-recombination-selection has been used successfully for genetic improvement in lentil. However further gene