Developing faster approaches for chickpea varietal improvement

• Develop efficient breeding methods to accelerate genetic gains in chickpea by harnessing high-throughput genomic and phenomics datasets
• Understand the genetic architecture of chickpea canopy development and identify QTL related to drought tolerance
• Compare the accuracy of prediction based on single-trait and multi-trait approaches using different prediction models

• New efficient breeding methodology for chickpea and other crops
• A better understanding of the genetic architecture of chickpea canopy and agronomic traits
• Increase knowledge of implementing genomic prediction in chickpea