Mounting levels of insecticide resistance within Australian Helicoverpa spp. populations have resulted in the adoption of non-chemical IPM control practices such as trap cropping with chickpea, Cicer arietinum (L.). However, a new leaf blight disease affecting chickpea in Australia has the potential to limit its use as a trap crop. Therefore this paper evaluates the potential of a variety of wi...

Inflammation is the natural body defense mechanism for the removal of injurious agents, necrosed cells and tissues from the body. This study was aimed to evaluate the anti-inflammatory and platelet aggregation effects of three medicinal plants of Pakistan. Methanolic extract of garden pea inhibited arachidonic acid (AA)-induced platelet aggregation (IC50 = 35 microg/mL) and platelet activating ...

The plant metallothionein2 from Cicer arietinum (chickpea), cic-MT2, is known to coordinate five divalent metal ions such as Zn(II) or Cd(II), which are arranged in a single metal thiolate cluster. When the Zn(II) form of the protein is titrated with Cd(II) ions in the presence of sulfide ions, an increased Cd(II) binding capacity and concomitant incorporation of sulfide ions into the cluster a...

A 2-year field study was conducted in northern Greece to investigate the effect of nitrogen fertilization and irrigation on productivity of three Greek chickpea varieties (“Amorgos” “Serifos”, “Andros”). Chickpea, grown under irrigation regime (30 + 30 mm of water) and fertilized with 50 kg·N·ha−1 before planting and with 40 kg·N·ha−1 at blossom growth stage, produced more total dry biomass and...

Stem and bulb nematode, Ditylenchus dipsaci (Kühn, 1857) (Tylenchida: Anguinidae) is one of the most damaging plant-parasitic nematodes damage legume crops such as chickpea. The aim study was to develop a protocol for in-vivo bioassay investigate D. interaction with Nine accessions wild domesticated Cicer spp. including three reticulatum Ladiz., echinospermum P.H.Davis arietinum L. (Fabales: Fa...

Abstract Phytophthora medicaginis causing root rot of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum ) is an important disease, with genetic resistance using C . × echinospermum crosses as the main disease management strategy. We evaluated pathogenic variation in P populations aim improving phenotyping methods for resistance. addressed question individual isolate aggressiveness across four different seedling‐based...

Identification of functionally relevant potential genomic loci using an economical, simpler and user-friendly genomics-assisted breeding strategy is vital for rapid genetic dissection of complex flowering time quantitative trait in chickpea. A high-throughput multiple QTL-seq strategy was employed in two inter (Cicer arietinum desi accession ICC 4958 × C reticulatum wild accession ICC 17160)- a...

Green synthesis of metal nanoparticles (NP) has emerged as a recent trend in green chemistry. However, their potential the field agriculture is yet underexplored. In this study, silver (Ag NPs) were synthesized by using fruit juice and peel extract Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr. reducing capping agent. The nano-primed seeds Zea mays, Glycine max, Cicer arietinum showed enhanced germination rate up...

To compensate for stress imposed by salinity, biofilm formation and exopolysaccharide production are significant strategies of salt tolerant bacteria to assist metabolism. We hypothesized that two previously isolated salt-tolerant strains Halomonas variabilis (HT1) and Planococcus rifietoensis (RT4) have an ability to improve plant growth, These strains can form biofilm and accumulate exopolysa...

in order to evaluate the effects of foliar application of methanol and irrigation intervals on yield and yield components of chickpea cultivars a factorial experiment as split plots based on randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted in spring 2008 at the agricultural research station of ferdowsi university of mashhad. the treatments were 10 and 20 irrigation interva...