**1. Introduction**

Legumes are of particular nutritional and economic importance forming part of the diet of millions of people worldwide. Legume seeds in human nutrition are important cause of proteins and peptides, carbohydrates and dietary fibers, and a high-quality source of some micronutrients such as vitamins, fatty acids, folic acid and minerals that have significant health benefits [1].

Different approaches have been used to cut down the period of plant reproductive cycles. Innovative techniques developed in this decade, such as genomic selection,

high-throughput plant phenotyping and modern speed breeding, have been shown to speed up plant breeding. Plant genetic engineering also played a precious role in developing crops with desirable quality related traits using gene transformation [2, 3].

Conventional breeding techniques are not adequate for plant genome augmentation to develop new plant varieties. To overcome this hindrance in plant breeding methods, molecular markers have been used for the assortment of superior hybrid lines. Improving plant phenotype for an exact desirable trait involves the artificial selection and breeding of this given trait by the plant breeder. Breeders always promote to use crops with shorter reproductive phase, which permit the production of a number of generations in a single year as well as help in crop rotation generally wheat rice cropping system. In this cropping system summer mung benefited as one extra crop in a year as well as also get better the soil health [4]**.** Plant breeding combined with genome studies increases the quality of breeding practices and saves time [5]. Research interest in genetically engineered crops has been increasing in legume crops given the fundamental need to ensure food security for the growing whole human population [6].

The use of molecular and conventional plant breeding techniques for many legume crops, as well as the use of genome editing methods, modify and improve required desired plant phenotypes. Moreover, the latent association between these approaches used to formulate the future strategy for crop variety/ hybrid development will also be explored.
