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Photoperiodic response and accelerated generation turnover in chickpea

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-4290(81)90073-3
 
Title Photoperiodic response and accelerated generation turnover in chickpea
 
Creator Sethi, S C
Byth, D E
Gowda, C L L
Green, J M
 
Subject Chickpea
 
Description Rapid generation advancement enables the breeder to produce and test near homozygous lines in a shorter period of time. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is a quantitative long-day plant. Three experiments were conducted, two at ICRISAT Center Hyderabad and one at Bangalore, India, from December 1978 to August 1979 to assess potential of extended daylength to shorten the life cycle by early flower induction. The studies involved cultivars of different maturity groups. Twenty-four hour daylength treatment by using incandescent lights induced early flowering. All cultivars flowered simultaneously and took 32 to 35 days after sowing, in contrast to 32 to 74 days taken for 50% flowering under normal daylengths. Plants exposed to 24-h daylength had slightly increased plant height, more pods and larger seeds in one of the experiments. Physiologically mature pods could be harvested as early as 62 days after sowing from plants induced to flower early by 24-h treatment. Once flowering was induced, continuation of the extended daylength treatment had no effect on maturity. This technique will allow harvesting of more than one generation per year.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 1981
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1448/1/FCR4_215_225_1981.pdf
Sethi, S C and Byth, D E and Gowda, C L L and Green, J M (1981) Photoperiodic response and accelerated generation turnover in chickpea. Field Crops Research, 4 (3). pp. 215-225. ISSN 0378-4290