Pizza being the most popular food worldwide, quality and sensory appeal are important considerations during its modification effort. This study was aimed to evaluate the quality of pizza made using two different sources of proteins, chickpea (Cicer arietinum) flour and dried carp fish powder (Cyprinus carpio). Analysis indicated nutrients richness specificity of chickpea flour (higher fiber, en...

A chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) collection consisting of 445 Kabuli-type collected from different locations Iran was evaluated based on six qualitative and 14 quantitative morphological descriptors. Chickpea accessions were widely varied in plant height, the number pods per plant, dry weight, 100-grain grain yield, harvest index. Grain yield positively correlated with (r = 0.39**), pod fertilit...

An experiment was conducted to examine the extent of root and canopy interference of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) with sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus L.). Sowthistle was surrounded with either two or eight chickpea plants. There were different types of competition: no competition, shoot competition, root competition and full competition (root and shoot). The performance of sowthistle grown in f...

Chickpea (Cicer arientinum L.) is one of the most dominant pulse crops in India, which contributes 38 percent area and 50 production pulses compare to total India. contains protein-2.1%, carbohydrates-61.5%, fat-4.5% more iron, calcium niacin content. The main constrain chickpea due parasitic nematodes (Meloidogyne incognita) about 14% global annual yield loss. Pseudomonas fluorescens a bacteri...

a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications was carried out in order to study the effect of different strains of mesorhizobium ciceri on chickpea tolerance under drought stress. in the first step of experiment, five native cultivars of chickpea (bivanij, arman, greet, jam and hashem) were inoculated with eight native (c-15, c-22, swri7, swri9 and swri4) ...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L. cv. GPF2) and soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill cv. Brag) genotypes were subjected to varying water stress levels of -0.2 to -0.8 MPa to assess their relative sensitivity towards water stress. Soybean seedlings experienced significantly more stress injury (as electrolyte leakage) than chickpea at all stress levels. LD 50 in terms of percent germination, root length,...

• Response to low temperature during early growth in cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and its wild progenitor C. reticulatum was investigated to clarify the evolutionary processes under domestication in this crop. • Parental lines and their F2 and F3 progeny were exposed to cold treatment (4°C) for 30°d after seed imbibition and compared with controls. • Cold treatment caused a 19-d advanc...

Terminal velocity of chickpea, rice and lentil seeds has been experimentally measured by suspending the seeds in an air stream. In order to assessment the effects of seed size and moisture content on terminal velocity a completely randomized design in factorial experiment was carried out. The results showed that size and moisture content have significant effects (p<0.01) on terminal velocityin ...

The noctuid, Helicoverpa armigera, is the most important crop pest worldwide. We evaluated the biological activity of soybean trypsin inhibitor and plant lectins against this pest to identify toxin genes for deployment through transgenic plants. Of the seven plant lectins tested, chickpea and snowdrop lectins showed marked antibiotic effects in terms of insect survival and development. Larval s...

In the past few years, there are number of researchers carrying out their research on the excipients derived from polysaccharides and some of these researches show that natural excipients are comparable and can serve as an alternative to the synthetic excipients. Hence, the objectives of this research are to characterize the naturally sourced chickpea starch powder and to study the pharmaceutic...