N. K. SharmaANIL KUMAR2023-10-182023-10-182022https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810199115Pulses are an important source of staple protein for vegetarians which constitute a major population of the country. Mungbean is also known as green gram, an ancient pulse crop widely cultivated under different agro-ecological situations in India mainly during Kharif and summer seasons. It is a diploid species having chromosome number (2n=22) belongs to family Leguminosae (Fabaceae), sub-family Papilionaceae and is botanically recognized as Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek. Mungbean is a native of South Asia (India). Vigna radiata var. sublobata is the possible progenitor of mungbean. It is basically a self- pollinated crop (Singh et al., 2015).EnglishThesis