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Collection Strategies for Food Legumes

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Title Collection Strategies for Food Legumes
 
Creator Pundir, R P S
Mengesha, M H
 
Subject Food legumes
 
Description Food legumes are consumed as dry seeds, green seeds or the green pods
with irmture seeds inside. They are rich i n protein and thus form a
natural supplement to carbhydrate-rich foods. This paper addresses
the principles of germplasm collection, with reference mainly to one
important cool season food legume, chickpea (-Cicer a rietinum L.). Th i s
species is known to have originated in Turkey, 'and the crop i s now
cultivated under a much wider range of climatic conditions than occurs
in that country, i.e., from temperate to subtropical. Chickpea is a
self-pollinated crop. Germplasm accessions of chickpea are collected
from dry seeds. Collection strategies and some guidelines are
discussed in this paper. Other crops are referred to as examples of
special cases or uses.
 
Date 1991
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4429/1/CP_365.pdf
Pundir, R P S and Mengesha, M H (1991) Collection Strategies for Food Legumes. In: International Workshop on Genetic Resources of Cool-season Pasture, Forage, and Food Legumes for Semi-arid Temperate Environments, 19-24 Jun 1987, Cairo, Egypt.