Genomics‐assisted lentil breeding: Current status and future strategies

Genomics-assisted breeding has become a powerful tool to develop high-yielding climate-resilient varieties for adaptation adverse environmental conditions such as heat and drought stresses. Previously, efforts have been made genomic resources in lentil, leading the development of many trait-specific mapping populations, cores mini-cores, single nucleotide polymorphism simple sequence repeat markers. Molecular markers used genetic diversity analyses clarify relationships lentil. However, availability cost-effective next-generation sequencing genotyping-by-sequencing technologies provided unprecedented opportunities advancing genetics research applications. For instance, it possible assemble large complex genome, high-density maps high-resolution QTL mapping, deploy genome-wide association study Furthermore, range marker genotyping platforms developed. These developments offer ample modernize current programs lentil accelerating gains. This review discusses status future possibilities genomics-assisted cultivars suitable changing climatic conditions.