Zinc deficiency is not only the cause of low productivity of crops, but it also results in low zinc content in seeds, which leads to poor dietary zinc intake. To study the effect of zinc foliar application on improving plant yield and seed zinc content for human consumption, chickpea plants were raised in refined sand culture with deficient (0.2 μM) and sufficient (1μM) supply of zinc under gla...

A pot experiment was conducted at a net house of the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, in the ‘rabi’ season of October, 2009 to March, 2010 to evaluate the effects of gibberellic acid (GA) on growth, physio-biochemical, yield and quality parameters of chickpea cultivar DCP 92-3. Surface sterilized seeds of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) were soaked in four concentrations viz., 0,1...

The present work focused on identification of allelochemicals from the leaf leachates of Gmelina arborea and analyzing its influence on the germination of red gram, green gram, black gram, and chickpea in terms of the levels of some important germination enzymes like acid phosphatase, catalase, peroxidase, and amylase. The study showed that allelopathic effects were more predominant in chickpea...

Background: Chickpea is an important pulse crop. The area, production and productivity of Kabuli chickpea are very low as compared to Desi type chickpea. While, worldwide predominated by (80%) (20%). One constraints limiting the seed fast deterioration process as, they possesses thin fragile coat which makes it more susceptible infestation beetle storage fungi. In addition, day increase in usag...

the effects of sowing date and crop density of chickpea on population and infestation of pod borers were studied in a randomized complete block design by factorial arrangement with three replications in the chickpea growing region of greet, khorramabad in 2007 until 2009. experimental factors comprised of sowing dates (march 14, march 30, and april 21) and crop density (25, 50 and 75 plant.m-2)...

Rhizobium pusense strain NRCPB10T was isolated from rhizosphere soil of chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.). Based upon the draft genome sequence, the genome is 5.28 Mb and encodes 5,064 proteins.

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important food legume crop, particularly for the arid regions including Indian subcontinent. Considering the detrimental effect of drought, temperature and salt stress on crop yield, efforts have been initiated in the direction of developing improved varieties and designing alternate strategies to sustain chickpea production in adverse environmental condition...

A yeast glucan elicitor causes the accumulation o f the pterocarpan phytoalexins medicarpin and maackiain in chickpea ( Cicer arietinum) cell suspension cultures established from seeds. A cell culture line from a chickpea cultivar resistant against its main fungal pathogen Ascochyta rabiei accumulates large amounts (944 nmol/g fr. wt.) whereas a cell culture line from a susceptible cultivar acc...