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Use of chickpea and pigeonpea germplasm and their impact on crop improvement in India

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Title Use of chickpea and pigeonpea germplasm and their impact
on crop improvement in India
 
Creator Lal, S
Asthana, A N
Gowda, C L L
 
Subject Chickpea
Pigeonpea
 
Description The imp'ortant pulse cropS' grown in India are chickpea (Cieer arietinum L.), pigeonpea
(Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.), mung bean (Vigna radfata (L.) Wilczek), urd bean
(Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper), lentil (Lens eulinaris Medik.), field pea (Pisum sativum
L.), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.), moth bean (Vignaaconitifolia (Jacq.)
Marechal), horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc.), grass pea or khesari
(Lathyrus sativus L.) and dry bean (Phaseo/us vulgaris L.). Other pulses of minor
importance grown in restricted areas in Indiaare faba bean (Viciajaba L.), rice bean
(Vigna umbel/ala (Thunb,) Ohwi and Ohashi), lablab bean (Lablab purpureus (L.)
Sweet), and winged bean (PsopHoc.arpuslelragonofobus L.). Among these, chickpea
and pigeonpea are the most important.
 
Date 1989
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3538/1/0022.pdf
Lal, S and Asthana, A N and Gowda, C L L (1989) Use of chickpea and pigeonpea germplasm and their impact on crop improvement in India. In: Collaboration on Genetic Resources: summary proceedings of a Joint ICRISAT/NBPGR(ICAR) Workshop on Germplasm Exploration and Evaluation in India, 14-15 Nov 1988, ICRISAT Center, Patancheru, India.