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Sources for Tolerance to Cold in Cicer Species

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http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci1990.0011183X003000050036x
 
Title Sources for Tolerance to Cold in Cicer Species
 
Creator Singh, K B
Malhotra, R S
Saxena, M C
 
Subject Climate change
 
Description Cold tolerance is an important prerequisite for successful winter sowing of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). In the Mediterranean region, winter sowing will increase productivity compared with the same crop sown traditionally in the spring. In the search for germplasm possessing a higher level of tolerance to cold than the cultivated species, 137 lines of eight wild annual Cicer species were evaluated during the 1987-1988 and 1988-1989 seasons at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria. Both seasons were effective for screening chickpea against cold, as the susceptible indicator was killed by cold spells each year. Most of the lines of C. bijugum K.H. Rech., C. echinosperum P.H. Davis, and C. reticulatum Ladiz. were tolerant to cold and had significantly higher levels of cold tolerance than the cultivated species. All lines of C. chorassanicum (Bunge) M. Popov, C. cuneatum Hochst. ex Rich., and C. yamashitae Kitamura, and all but one line of C. judaicum Boiss., were susceptible. Lines of C. pinnatifidum Jaub. & Spach showed both susceptible and tolerant reactions
 
Publisher Crop Science Society of America
 
Date 1990
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6050/1/CropScience_30_5_1136-1138_1990.pdf
Singh, K B and Malhotra, R S and Saxena, M C (1990) Sources for Tolerance to Cold in Cicer Species. Crop Science, 30 (5). pp. 1136-1138. ISSN 1435-0653