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Mahendar Thudi
Researcher at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Publications - 95
Citations - 6039
Mahendar Thudi is an academic researcher from International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Quantitative trait locus. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 80 publications receiving 4384 citations. Previous affiliations of Mahendar Thudi include University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.
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Draft genome sequence of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum ) provides a resource for trait improvement
Rajeev K. Varshney,Rajeev K. Varshney,Chi Song,Rachit K. Saxena,Sarwar Azam,Sheng Yu,Andrew G. Sharpe,Steven B. Cannon,Jong-Min Baek,Benjamin D. Rosen,Bunyamin Tar’an,Teresa Millán,Xudong Zhang,Larissa Ramsay,Aiko Iwata,Ying Wang,William Nelson,Andrew Farmer,Pooran M. Gaur,Carol Soderlund,R. Varma Penmetsa,Chunyan Xu,Arvind K. Bharti,Weiming He,Peter Winter,Shancen Zhao,James K. Hane,Noelia Carrasquilla-Garcia,Janet A. Condie,Hari D. Upadhyaya,Ming-Cheng Luo,Mahendar Thudi,C. L. L. Gowda,Narendra Singh,Judith Lichtenzveig,Krishna K. Gali,Josefa Rubio,N. Nadarajan,Jaroslav Dolezel,Kailash C. Bansal,Xun Xu,David Edwards,Gengyun Zhang,Guenter Kahl,Juan Gil,Karam B. Singh,Karam B. Singh,Swapan K. Datta,Scott A. Jackson,Jun Wang,Jun Wang,Douglas R. Cook +51 more
TL;DR: This work reports the ∼738-Mb draft whole genome shotgun sequence of CDC Frontier, a kabuli chickpea variety, which contains an estimated 28,269 genes, and identifies targets of both breeding-associated genetic sweeps and breeding- associated balancing selection.
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Genetic dissection of drought tolerance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Rajeev K. Varshney,Mahendar Thudi,Spurthi N. Nayak,Spurthi N. Nayak,Pooran M. Gaur,Junichi Kashiwagi,Lakshmanan Krishnamurthy,Deepa Jaganathan,Jahnavi Koppolu,Jahnavi Koppolu,Abhishek Bohra,Abhishek Bohra,Shailesh Tripathi,Shailesh Tripathi,Abhishek Rathore,Aravind K. Jukanti,Aravind K. Jukanti,V. Jayalakshmi,Anilkumar Vemula,Sukhwinder Singh,Mohammad Yasin,M. S. Sheshshayee,K. P. Viswanatha +22 more
TL;DR: Nine QTL clusters containing QTLs for several drought tolerance traits have been identified that can be targeted for molecular breeding and one cluster present on CaLG04 has a high potential to enhance drought tolerance in chickpea improvement.
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Pearl millet genome sequence provides a resource to improve agronomic traits in arid environments
Rajeev K. Varshney,Chengcheng Shi,Mahendar Thudi,Cédric Mariac,Jason G. Wallace,Peng Qi,He Zhang,Yusheng Zhao,Xiyin Wang,Abhishek Rathore,Rakesh K. Srivastava,Annapurna Chitikineni,Guangyi Fan,Prasad Bajaj,Somashekhar Punnuri,Sunil Gupta,Hao Wang,Yong Jiang,Marie Couderc,Mohan A. V. S. K. Katta,Dev Paudel,K. D. Mungra,Wenbin Chen,Karen R. Harris-Shultz,Vanika Garg,Neetin Desai,Neetin Desai,Dadakhalandar Doddamani,Ndjido Ardo Kane,Joann A. Conner,Arindam Ghatak,Palak Chaturvedi,Sabarinath Subramaniam,Om Parkash Yadav,Cécile Berthouly-Salazar,Falalou Hamidou,Jianping Wang,Xinming Liang,Jérémy Clotault,Jérémy Clotault,Hari D. Upadhyaya,Philippe Cubry,Bénédicte Rhoné,Bénédicte Rhoné,Mame Codou Gueye,Ramanjulu Sunkar,Christian Dupuy,Francesca Sparvoli,Shifeng Cheng,R. S. Mahala,Bharat P. Singh,Rattan Yadav,Eric Lyons,Swapan K. Datta,C. Tom Hash,Katrien M. Devos,Edward S. Buckler,Edward S. Buckler,Jeffrey L. Bennetzen,Andrew H. Paterson,Peggy Ozias-Akins,Stefania Grando,Jun Wang,Trilochan Mohapatra,Wolfram Weckwerth,Jochen C. Reif,Xin Liu,Yves Vigouroux,Yves Vigouroux,Xun Xu +69 more
TL;DR: This work resequenced and analyzed 994 pearl millet lines, enabling insights into population structure, genetic diversity and domestication, and establishes marker trait associations for genomic selection, to define heterotic pools, and to predict hybrid performance.
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Genetic Dissection of Drought and Heat Tolerance in Chickpea through Genome-Wide and Candidate Gene-Based Association Mapping Approaches
Mahendar Thudi,Hari D. Upadhyaya,Abhishek Rathore,Pooran M. Gaur,Lakshmanan Krishnamurthy,Manish Roorkiwal,Spurthi N. Nayak,Sushil K. Chaturvedi,P.S. Basu,N. V. P. R. Gangarao,Asnake Fikre,Paul Kimurto,Prakash C. Sharma,M. S. Sheshashayee,Satoshi Tobita,Junichi Kashiwagi,Osamu Ito,Andrzej Killian,Rajeev K. Varshney +18 more
TL;DR: This study provides significant MTAs for drought andHeat tolerance in chickpea that can be used, after validation, in molecular breeding for developing superior varieties with enhanced drought and heat tolerance.
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Resequencing of 429 chickpea accessions from 45 countries provides insights into genome diversity, domestication and agronomic traits.
Rajeev K. Varshney,Mahendar Thudi,Manish Roorkiwal,Weiming He,Hari D. Upadhyaya,Wei Yang,Prasad Bajaj,Philippe Cubry,Abhishek Rathore,Jianbo Jian,Dadakhalandar Doddamani,Aamir W. Khan,Aamir W. Khan,Vanika Garg,Vanika Garg,Annapurna Chitikineni,Dawen Xu,Pooran M. Gaur,Narendra Singh,Sushil K. Chaturvedi,Sushil K. Chaturvedi,Gangarao V. P. R. Nadigatla,Lakshmanan Krishnamurthy,G. P. Dixit,Asnake Fikre,Asnake Fikre,Paul Kimurto,Sheshshayee M. Sreeman,Chellapilla Bharadwaj,Shailesh Tripathi,Jun Wang,Suk-Ha Lee,David Edwards,Kavi Kishor B. Polavarapu,R. Varma Penmetsa,José Crossa,Henry T. Nguyen,Kadambot H. M. Siddique,Timothy D. Colmer,Tim Sutton,Tim Sutton,Eric von Wettberg,Yves Vigouroux,Xun Xu,Xin Liu +44 more
TL;DR: This study establishes a foundation for large-scale characterization of germplasm and population genomics, and a resource for trait dissection, accelerating genetic gains in future chickpea breeding.