Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the most grown and consumed pulses it traditionally commercialised as seeds, flour or canned foods. In frame alternative protein sources, chickpea emerged a rich source dietary proteins (17–22%) that can be dry- wet-extracted. The application food ingredients still in early stages, where their properties how they interact within matrices are scarcely stud...

introduction salinity has various effects on plant growth by affecting physiological processes. the decline in plant productivity under saline condition, frequently linked with the reduction of photosynthetic capability. it has been reported that efficiency of psii photochemistry (fv/fm) of numerous plant species have been decreased due to salt stress studies have shown that salicylic acid (sa...

Expressed sequence tags simple sequence repeats (EST-SSRs) are important sources for investigation of genetic diversity and molecular marker development. Similar to genomic SSRs, the EST-SSRs are useful markers for many applications in genetics and plant breeding such as genetic diversity analysis, molecular mapping and cross-transferability across related species and genera. In spite of low po...

Dehydration or water-deficit is one of the most important environmental stress factors that greatly influences plant growth and development and limits crop productivity. Plants respond and adapt to such stress by altering their cellular metabolism and activating various defense machineries. Mechanisms that operate signal perception, transduction, and downstream regulatory events provide valuabl...

Ferritins store and sequester iron, and regulate iron homeostasis. The cDNA for a stress-responsive phytoferritin, previously identified in the extracellular matrix (ECM) of chickpea (Cicer arietinum), was cloned and designated CaFer1. The CaFer1 transcript was strongly induced in chickpea exposed to dehydration, hypersalinity and ABA treatment. Additionally, it has role in the defense against ...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a legume of Fabaceae family whose grains are rich in proteins, total dietary fiber, unsaturated lipids, minerals and bioactive compounds with antioxidant activity. Therefore, chickpea flour can be an attractive high nutritional complement to wheat for the formulation composite breads. In present study, thermal rheological characteristics chickpea–wheat dough obt...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is an important food legume crop but lags in the availability of genomic resources. In this study, we have generated about 2 million high-quality sequences of average length of 372 bp using pyrosequencing technology. The optimization of de novo assembly clearly indicated that hybrid assembly of long-read and short-read primary assemblies gave better results. The hybri...