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Identification of Large-Seeded High-Yielding Diverse Kabuli Accessions in Newly Assembled Chickpea Germplasm

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Title Identification of Large-Seeded High-Yielding Diverse Kabuli Accessions in Newly Assembled Chickpea Germplasm
 
Creator Upadhyaya, H D
Coyne, C J
Singh, Sube
Gowda, C L L
Lalitha, N
Muehlbauer, F J
 
Subject Chickpea
 
Description Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important grain legume
grown for easily digestible quality protein and its
nitrogen fixing capability that improves soil fertility. It is
cultivated on 10.38 million ha in 45 countries across the
globe producing 8.57 million tons with productivity of
0.83 t ha-1 (FAO 2004), which is rather low. India, Pakistan,
Myanmar, Turkey, and Iran in Asia; Mexico in North
Central America; and Ethiopia in Africa are the largest
chickpea producing countries. Of late chickpea is being
cultivated on considerable area in Canada, Australia, and
USA. Two types of chickpeas – kabuli and desi – are
recognized. The kabuli types have owl-shaped, large
beige colored seeds with thin seed coat and white colored
flowers; while the desi types have angular-shaped seeds
with thick seed coat, generally colored flowers and seeds.
Kabuli types account for about 15% of the world
chickpea production.
 
Date 2006
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/2492/1/Identification_of_Large-Seeded_High-.pdf
Upadhyaya, H D and Coyne, C J and Singh, Sube and Gowda, C L L and Lalitha, N and Muehlbauer, F J (2006) Identification of Large-Seeded High-Yielding Diverse Kabuli Accessions in Newly Assembled Chickpea Germplasm. Journal of SAT Agricultural Research, 2 (1). pp. 1-4.