genetically diverse, agronomically important breeding lines. Planned irradiation had broken undesirable linkages and enhanced favorable recombinants. As a result, traits like large seed, increased harvest index, assimilate partitioning, semi-dwarf habit, earliness, new ideotypes, improved seed quality, and enhanced disease resistance were incorporated in oilseed and legumes. The effective blend of mutation and recombination breeding at our and other institutes resulted in the release of 50 oilseeds and 60 legume varieties for commercial cultivation in the country (Table 2). Among these, 33 varieties have been released by BARC [4]. These varieties were evolved by incorporating desirable agronomic features like large seed in TG 1, TKG 19A, Somnath (TGS 1), TPG 41 and TLG 45 (groundnut); TAT 10