use of available moisture and by avoiding heat stress. Fall planting is desirable because drier soil conditions Available winter hardy lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) germplasm allow for planting the crop without the excessive soil has prompted interest in the development and use of cultivars that compaction that is common with spring planting in cold can be fall planted in cold highland areas. ...

Lentil is a major cool-season grain legume grown in South Asia, West Asia, and North Africa. Populations in developing countries of these regions have micronutrient deficiencies; therefore, breeding programs should focus more on improving the micronutrient content of food. In the present study, a set of 96 diverse germplasm lines were evaluated at three different locations in India to examine t...

Multiple genes and transcription factors are involved in the uptake and translocation of iron in plants from soil. The sequence information about iron uptake and translocation related genes is largely unknown in lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.). This study was designed to develop iron metabolism related molecular markers for Ferritin-1, BHLH-1 (Basic helix loop helix), or FER-like transcription f...

In order to determine the infl uence of recovery techniques with water (fl otation and wet sieving) on carbonized plant remains, a certain amount of wheat, barley, millet, horsebean and lentil macrofossils from archaeological sites was taken and treated with water. Moist recovery was also applied to in-laboratory, artifi cially, charred barley, millet and lentil samples. After the treatments, t...

establishment of an efficient and reproducible regeneration protocol is one of the basic prerequisites for genetic transformation of any crop plant. in vitro culture of lentil has proven to be difficult. in spite of a number of reports on the regeneration of this plant, very few satisfying and reproducible protocol has yet been reported. this study carried out for investigation of different hor...

Analysis of the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) intergenic spacers (IGS) (i.e., the IGS of 18S, 5.8S and 24S rDNA, and the NTS or non-transcribed spacer of 5S rDNA) of lentil cultivars and landraces (L. culinaris spp. culinaris) showed to have very low intraspecific length variability. PCR products of approximately 3200 bp were obtained from all cultivated materials; no significant electrophoretic differe...

Lentil is a cool-season pulse crop, rich in protein but deficient in two sulphur-containing amino acids cysteine and methionine. Due to low genetic variability in existing germplasm, induced mutagenic technique has been adopted in lentil, and two mutant lines exhibiting poor growth and low dry weight were isolated in M2-mutagenized (0.10% and 0.15% EMS, 6 h) population of variety L 414. Further...

Journal of Heredity 199738:115-119; 0022-1503/97/J5.00 An integrated genetic linkage map of chickpea (Clcei) has been developed that consists of 9 morphological, 27 isozyme, 10 RFLP, and 45 RAPD markers covering 550 cM. The map was made from segregation data from populations of three interspecific crosses of cultivated chickpea (C. arietlnum, 2n = 16) and a closely related wild species (C. retl...

Bean beetles (Bruchinae) are a taxon of seed predators and several species economically significant stored product pests. Seed quality may affect adult life history traits, with consequences for their population dynamics. We investigated if variation in host (poor quality: lentil; high mung bean) as experienced by the parental (i.e. individuals ovipositing) generation natal study emerging from ...

A field experiment was conducted during Winter season of 2022 at Crop Research Farm (CRF). Department Agronomy, SHUATS, Prayagraj (UP) to investigate the effect phosphorus and zinc levels on growth yield lentil. The treatments consist three doses viz., 20, 30, 50 kg/ha foliar i.e., 0.25%, 0.5%, 0.75% whose is observed Lentil (var. PL 406). laid out in RBD with Ten replicated thrice. treatment a...