TECHNOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHICKPEA (Cicer arietinum L.) CULTIVARS GROWN UNDER NATURAL CONDITIONS

Technological characteristics (dry weight, dry volume, wet water absorption capacity, waterabsorption index, hydration coefficient, swelling cooking time, number of destructedseeds after cooking) 27 chickpea cultivars grown under natural conditions (without the use ofchemical/organic fertilizers) were investigated in this study. Except for index and hydrationcoefficients, effects on found to be significant. The wetvolume capacity PC1 explained 49.33% total variation swellingcapacity, unit weight PC2 25.79% (bothexplaining 75.12% variation). Dry had highly significant positive correlations with weight(r=0.9776), volume (r=0.9653) (r=0.9317). In terms investigatedcharacteristics, clustered three groups scatter plot dendrogram was composed ofthree sub-clusters two main clusters.