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Breeding:

Southwest India and Africa are regarded as horse gram gene-rich regions. From the 1970s, germplasm of horse gram has been conserved. Organizations such as the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) has preserved 35 accessions of horse gram, the Australian Tropical Crops and Forages Genetic Resources Centre, has 38 accessions and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) has conserved 21 accessions.

A large amount of drought resistance genes exist in horse gram and enhancement of grain yield represents the main breeding goal in horsegram. Little attention has been paid to the genome structure and organization of horsegram. The use of new genes for breeding in horsegram could benefit from genetic data on numerous phenological and morphological features, which would influence agronomic methods and crop productivity. Many unfavorable traits such as late flowering, indeterminate twining growth habit, long and thin stem, thermo- and photosensitivity and a poor harvest index exist in horse gram.