Comprehensive Transcriptome Assembly of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Using Sanger and Next Generation Sequencing Platforms: Development and Applications

• Himabindu Kudapa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Himabindu Kudapa, Sarwar Azam

  Affiliation Research Program on Grain Legumes, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India

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• Sarwar Azam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Himabindu Kudapa, Sarwar Azam

  Affiliation Research Program on Grain Legumes, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India

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• Andrew G. Sharpe,

  Affiliation National Research Council Canada (NRC-CNRC), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Bunyamin Taran,

  Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Rong Li,

  Affiliation National Research Council Canada (NRC-CNRC), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Benjamin Deonovic,

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Iowa, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Connor Cameron,

  Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Andrew D. Farmer,

  Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Steven B. Cannon,

  Affiliations Department of Agronomy, University of Iowa, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service (USDA–ARS), Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit (USDA-ARS-CICGRU), Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Rajeev K. Varshney

  * E-mail: r.k.varshney@cgiar.org

  Affiliations Research Program on Grain Legumes, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme (GCP), c/o CIMMYT, Mexico DF, Mexico

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