In a major milestone for India’s agricultural biotechnology programme, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed the country’s first fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference genome of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan), a breakthrough expected to accelerate the development of high-yielding, climate-resilient and nutritionally superior pulse varieties. Pigeonpea, popularly known as tur or arhar, is one […]