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Chickpea breeding - progress and prospects

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Title Chickpea breeding - progress and prospects
 
Creator Rheenen, H A van
 
Subject Chickpea
 
Description Chickpea (Cicer arietinum), grown on about 10 million ha annually, is the world's third most
important ju!se crop. Although its breeding history is short, considerable progress has been made in
cultivar improvement. Breeding cultivars with resistance to freezing, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.
ciceris, Ascochyta rabiei and Helicoverpa armigem, and for short duration are examples of successes.
Yield stability has increased and yield gains of 1.6% per annum have been achieved. In the
West Asia and Mediterranean region, drought avoidance by winter sowing has been achieved by
incorporating disease resistance and changing the sowing date. This has resulted in a 75% yield
increase. A 20% yield increase was recorded in peninsular India because of the extra-short duration.
The prospects for additional gains from breeding are good. Desirable traits include resistance to
high temperature, salinity, Botrylis cinerea. Sclero~ium[Corliciumr]o ysii, Liriomyza cicerina and
stunt caused by bean leaf roll luteovirus. Attention should also be given to the problems of chilling
and lodging in the most productive chickpea-growing areas. The possibilities of applying new
biotechnological methods for genetic improvement, part~cularly the use of interspecific crossing,
micropropagation, somaclonal variation, and isocnzyme and restriction fragment length polymorphism
(RFLP) mapping, are discussed.
 
Publisher CAB Inernational
 
Date 1991
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5005/1/JA%201194.pdf
Rheenen, H A van (1991) Chickpea breeding - progress and prospects. Plant Breeding Abstracts , 61 (9). pp. 997-1007. ISSN 0032-0803