Intro
Preface
Contents
Editors and Contributors
1: Chickpea Diseases: Breeding and ``Omics ́́Approaches for Designing Next-Generation Disease-Resistant Chickpea Cultivar
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Causal Organism of Ascochyta Blight in Chickpea, Symptoms, and Losses
1.3 Fusarium Wilt: Symptoms and Losses
1.4 Causal Organism of Chickpea Dry Root Rot, Symptoms, and Losses
1.5 Causal Organism of Chickpea Botrytis Gray Mold, Symptoms, and Losses
1.6 Causal Organism of Chickpea Collar Rot, Symptoms, and Losses
1.7 Causal Organism of Chickpea Rust, Symptoms, and Losses

1.8 Causal Organism of Chickpea Chlorotic Stunt Virus, Symptoms, and Negative Effects
1.9 Brief Note on Disease Resistance Mechanism Orchestrated by the Host Plant
1.10 Chickpea Germplasm Repertoire for Harnessing Disease Resistance
1.11 Genetics of Disease Resistance in Chickpea
1.12 Genomic Resources: QTL Mapping for Disease Resistance in Chickpea
1.13 Advances in Functional Chickpea Genomics Contributing to Disease Resistance
1.14 Proteomics and Metabolomics Insights into Disease Resistance in Chickpea

1.15 Role of High-Throughput Phenotyping Approaches for Detecting Disease
1.16 Novel Breeding Approaches for Developing Disease-Resistant Genotypes
1.17 Conclusion and Future Perspective
References
2: Ascochyta Blight of Chickpea: A Menace to Be Managed by Resistance Breeding
2.1 Introduction
2.2 AB Causal Organism and its Symptoms
2.3 Prevalent Ascochyta rabiei Races
2.4 Epidemiology of the Disease
2.4.1 Mode of Spread and Survival
2.4.2 Disease development
2.4.3 Disease Prediction Models
2.5 Physiological Basis of Host-Pathogen Interaction

2.6 Host-Plant Resistance
2.6.1 Screening Techniques
2.6.1.1 Field Screening
2.6.1.2 Controlled Environment Screening
2.6.2 Mechanism of Host-Plant Resistance
2.6.3 Sources of Resistance
2.7 Genetics of Resistance
2.8 Resistance Breeding
2.8.1 Conventional Breeding
2.8.2 Marker-Assisted Breeding
2.8.3 Genomic-Assisted Breeding
2.9 Way Forward
References
3: Fusarium Wilt of Chickpea: Breeding and Genomic Approaches for Designing Wilt-Resistant Chickpea
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Chickpea Wilt: Causal Organism and Losses

3.3 Physiological Specialization in F. oxysporum f. sp. ciceris
3.4 Inheritance for Wilt Resistance, Late Wilting, Slow Wilting, and Wilt Differentials
3.5 Breeding for Wilt Resistance Using Traditional Breeding Technologies
3.6 Molecular Markers in Chickpea
3.6.1 Simple-Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers
3.7 Markers Other Than SSRs
3.8 Markers Linked to Chickpea Genes Governing Resistance to F. oxysporum f. sp. ciceris
3.9 Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Libraries in Chickpea
3.10 Marker-Assisted Breeding for Wilt Resistance in Chickpea
3.11 Genomic-Assisted Breeding