Effects of Drought on Yield and Some Yield Components of Chickpea

This research was conducted to determine responses of chickpeas to drought in different periods (early period, late period, no-irrigation, two times irrigation as control). The trial was made in “Randomized Complete Block Design” with three replications on 2010 and 2011 years in Konya-Turkey. Genotypes were consisted from 7 lines of ICARDA, 2 certified lines and 1 local population. The results showed that; as means of years and genotypes, early period stress showed highest (207.47 kg da) seed yield and it was followed by control (202.33 kg da), late period (144.64 kg da) and normal (106.93 kg da) stress applications. The genotypes were affected too much by drought and, the lowest seed was taken from non-irrigated plots. As the means of years and stress applications, the highest (196.01 kg da) yield was taken from genotype 22255. The reason of yield variation could be derived from different responses of genotypes to drought. Keywords—Chickpea, drought, seed yield.