CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes: Proposal - Library

• address abiotic stresses and climate change effects,• capture the unique ability of grain legumes to fix nitrogen,• manage key biotic stresses, and• generate new opportunities to integrate grain legumes in intensive cropping systems.Built on the past successes, germplasm collections, and recent progresses in science, PL research will employboth conventional breeding approaches and modern molecular tools. Prioritization, dissemination andpromotion activities of the SCs support the PLs in achieving production, sales, consumption andenvironmental performance objectives. The PLs are as follows:Addressing abiotic stresses and climate change effectsPL 1. Drought and low-phosphorous tolerant common bean, cowpea, and soybeanPL 2. Heat-tolerant chickpea, common bean, faba bean and lentilPL 3. Short-duration, drought tolerant and aflatoxin-free groundnutCapturing unique legume ability to fix nitrogenPL 4. High nitrogen-fixing chickpea, common bean, faba bean and soybeanManaging key biotic stressesPL 5. Insect-smart chickpea, cowpea, and pigeonpea production systemsGenerating new opportunities to intensify cropping systemsPL 6. Extra-early chickpea and lentil varietiesPL 7. Herbicide-tolerant, machine-harvestable chickpea, faba bean and lentil varietiesPL 8. Pigeonpea hybrid and management practicesEach Product Line indicates the specific target traits, grain legume crops, regions and countries that arepresented in the rationale of each Product Line. The countries have been selected based on ability andrequirements to participate in each of the Strategic Components in the Product Line. Key research partnercountries, where an active research program will be conducted, are indicated under SC2. Additionalcountries are indicated under SC3 and SC4 based on the opportunities to involve these countries more in theevaluation and dissemination components. Finally, all countries will be considered under SC1 for datagathering and priority setting, and will have options to participate in and access the knowledge sharing andcapacity programs under SC5. Grain Legume resources will be highest for those countries involved in SC2,with more reliance on in-country and third-party resources for participation in the other SCs. The initialthree-year workplans/logframes are presented for each PL in Appendix 10.Grain Legumes – Product Lines and Strategic Components 26