Grass Pea (Lathyrus sativus L.)—A Sustainable and Resilient Answer to Climate Challenges

Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is an annual cool-season grain legume widely cultivated in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Mediterranean region. It a stress-resilient crop with high nutritional value, considered promising source of traits to breed for adaptation/mitigation climate change effects. also reported as suitable more sustainable production systems such intercropping. In this review, we elaborate integrative perspective including not only agronomic-based but variety-breeding-based strategy grass deal impacts, summarizing current knowledge on biotic/abiotic stress resistance. Additionally, highlight importance implementing fundamental techniques create diversity (as interspecific hybridization or gene editing) increase genetic gains speed breeding efficient identification targets via genomics) development multiple stress-resistant varieties that simultaneously provide yield quality stability under vulnerable environments.