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The Winged Bean Genome: Winged Bean—One Species Supermarket

Tsoutsoura, Niki; Chong, Yuet Tian; Ho, Wai Kuan; Chai, Hui Hui; Tanzi, Alberto Stefano; Salazar-Licea, Luis; Massawe, Festo; Brameld, John; Salter, Andrew; Mayes, Sean

Authors

Niki Tsoutsoura

Yuet Tian Chong

Wai Kuan Ho

Hui Hui Chai

Alberto Stefano Tanzi

Luis Salazar-Licea

Festo Massawe

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JOHN BRAMELD JOHN.BRAMELD@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry

Andrew Salter

SEAN MAYES SEAN.MAYES@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor



Contributors

Mark A. Chapman
Editor

Abstract

Climate change, population growth and increasingly homogenised diets are a threat to food security and human nutritional status. There is an urgent need to incorporate highly nutritious crops into the human diet to provide new sources of nutrition, to diversify agriculture and to meet the challenges of climate change. Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.) is an underutilised crop with a relatively high protein content, grown in the humid tropic regions. Despite its many strengths, the crop suffers from a number of production, yield and utilisation-related constraints. In this chapter, we discuss the nutritional value of winged bean and how it can be improved by utilising genomic and transcriptomic data. We discuss the importance of identifying genes and gene functions, generating genetic linkage maps and developing molecular markers that could be used to accelerate plant breeding. Considerable genomics resources have been developed in major legumes such as soybean (Glycine max) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) through transcriptome and genome sequencing. These provide opportunities for comparative genomic studies and translational research to improve minor crops such as winged bean. Winged bean genome sequencing is underway and will be published shortly. This will contribute to breeding improvement efforts. More research is needed to combine genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics data to further improve winged bean for food and nutritional security.

Citation

Tsoutsoura, N., Chong, Y. T., Ho, W. K., Chai, H. H., Tanzi, A. S., Salazar-Licea, L., …Mayes, S. (2022). The Winged Bean Genome: Winged Bean—One Species Supermarket. In M. A. Chapman (Ed.), Underutilised Crop Genomes (315-336). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_17

Online Publication Date Nov 4, 2022
Publication Date Nov 4, 2022
Deposit Date May 9, 2023
Publisher Springer International Publishing
Pages 315-336
Series Title Compendium of Plant Genomes
Book Title Underutilised Crop Genomes
ISBN 9783031008474
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_17
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/20557896
Publisher URL https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_17