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Legumes account for 27% of the world's primary crop production. Most of the crops are climate smart and super foods with dietary proteins along with nitrogen fixing mechanism. Indian gene center has rich biodiversity in vegetable and legume crops. Pea, cowpea, winged bean, Indian bean, jack bean, mucuna bean, cluster bean, etc. are important. Vegetable types in crops, such as cowpea, soybean, red gram, yardlong bean and moong bean are getting fabulous attention. This including other beans need attention for improvement includes sword bean and faba bean. Information on species, varietal diversity, their origin, distribution and evolution of crop and its related species are very important prerequisites for genetic improvement of any crop. Information on genetics and genetic resources is pre-requisite to choose the appropriate breeding strategies to fulfill the objectives. Origin, evolution, genetics, genetic resources, breeding methods and varieties/hybrids developed, molecular breeding, genomics wherever available are presented in crisp on each of the crops, in the present book. The book ‘Breeding of Leguminous Vegetable Crops’ brings together the progress in genetics and breeding aspects of leguminous vegetable crops. Chapters describe genetic backgrounds, cytogenetics, germplasm and molecular resources, current breeding objectives, major breeding methods and OPV and hybrid varietal achievements for most of the leguminous vegetable crops. In addition, intellectual property rights, molecular breeding and ideotype characters of leguminous vegetables are also provided for comprehensive understanding of the recent updates in the vegetable legume crops. We are sure that the book is useful as a summary of the current state of breeding of the vegetable legume crops and will thus be an excellent resource for students and vegetable legume crop breeders.