Fusarium wilt of chickpea caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris can be managed by risk assessment and use of resistant cultivars. A reliable method for the detection and quantification of F. oxysporum f. sp. ciceris in soil and chickpea tissues would contribute much to implementation of those disease management strategies. In this study, we developed a real-time quantitative polymerase ch...

BACKGROUND Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris, a main threat to global chickpea production, is managed mainly by resistant cultivars whose efficiency is curtailed by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris races. METHODOLOGY We characterized compatible and incompatible interactions by assessing the spatial-temporal pattern of infection and colonization of chickpea cvs. P-2245...

In present study, we investigated the nutraceutical potential of seed coat, dehulled raw dal, cooked dal, whole seed of dark coloured desi chickpea and light coloured kabuli chickpea. Locally grown varieties of Haryana (India) named HC-1 and KC-1 were under investigation. Total phenolic content, o-dihydric phenols, hydrophilic and hydrophobic phenols, flavonoid contents were determined in metha...

Egg hatch of Pratylenchus thornei was influenced by temperature. It took place at all temperatures within the range 10–258C and was optimal at 208C. Root penetration increased steadily with increasing time of incubation up to the end of the experiment 11 days after inoculation. Temperature affected penetration rate in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) cultivars UC 27 and JG 62 but not in line P 2245, ...

1 Hudeiba Research Station (ARC), P. O. Box 31, Eddamer, Sudan 2 National Centre for Research, Environment and Natural Resources Research Institute (ENRRI) P. O. Box 6096 Khartoum, Sudan *Corresponding Author’s E-mail: [email protected] The performance of two chickpea in response to three Rhizobium strains was evaluated. The main objective of the work was to study the effect of inoculation ...

The genetic diversity of 23 chickpea accessions representing Kyrgyz landraces and cultivars, ICARDA breeding lines, Spanish and Turkish cultivars was characterized using nine microsatellite (SSR) markers which generated a total of 122 alleles. The number of alleles (Na) per locus varied from 9 to 20. The observed heterozygosity (Ho) ranged between 0.05 and 0.43 (average 0.13) whereas both the e...

The use of resistant cultivars is one of the most practical and cost-efficient strategies for managing plant diseases. However, the efficiency of resistant cultivars in disease management is limited by pathogenic variability in pathogen populations. Knowledge of the evolutionary history and potential of the pathogen population may help to optimize the management of disease-resistance genes, irr...

Genetic diversity analysis of chickpea germplasm can provide practical information for the selection of parental material and thus assist in planning breeding strategies. Chickpea seed is a good source of carbohydrates and proteins, constituting 80% of the total dry seed weight. Released cultivars and advanced lines of 30 chickpea genotypes were subjected to RAPD analysis for assessment of gene...