Cicer reticulatum L. is the wild progenitor of the fourth most important legume crop chickpea (C. arietinum L.). We assembled short-read sequences into 416 Mb draft genome of C. reticulatum and anchored 78% (327 Mb) of this assembly to eight linkage groups. Genome annotation predicted 25,680 protein-coding genes covering more than 90% of predicted gene space. The genome assembly shared a substa...

This research is reports the fungicidal properties of nano-size silver/chitosan nanoformulations (NFs) used as an agent for antifungal treatment of various seed borne plant pathogens. Fungal phytopathogens, especially seed borne disease causing species, Rhizoctonia solani, Aspergillus flavus, Alternaria alterneta were isolated form chickpea seeds. Differences were observed in the antifungal act...

A set of 14 plant lectins was screened in a binary choice bioassay for inhibitory activity on cowpea weevil Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) oviposition. Coating of chickpea seeds (Cicer arietinum L.) with a 0.05% (w/v) solution of plant lectins caused a significant reduction in egg laying. Control experiments with heat inactivated lectin and BSA indicated that the observed deterrent effects are s...

background: cicer arietinum (chickpea) is one of the most important harvests in the world with high nutritional value. lack of essential oils in the seeds of chickpea is an advantage in search for drug-like molecules with less toxicity. we evaluated anticonvulsant effect of c. arietinum in common animal models of epilepsy. methods: dichloromethane extract was obtained from c. arietinum seeds by...

introduction studies on the fall-winter sowing of chickpea were commenced in 1974-75 at mediterranean regions. for example, singh et al, (1997) studied some chickpea cold and ascochyta blight tolerant genotypes in fall-winter sowing for 10 years (1983-1993) on three regions in syria and lebanon under rain-fed conditions. the mean of seed yield for 10 years in the fall-winter sowing was 1686 kg....

Chickpeas are rich source of protein and predominantly grown in boron (B)-deficient sandy-loam soils Pakistan. Boron-tolerant bacteria (BTB) could tolerate higher B levels soil increase availability to the plants. Field trials were conducted under irrigated (district Layyah) rainfed Chakwal) conditions evaluate interactive effects pre-optimized application methods BTB (Bacillus sp. MN54) on nod...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the impact different phosphorus (P) fertilizers and organic manures alone in combination with Bacillus sp. MN-54 on growth, yield, nutrient uptake, chlorophyll (SPAD value) crude proteins content chickpea. simple manure (SM), processed (PM), single super phosphate (SSP), rock (RP) were applied individually combinations soil pots, chickpea seeds trea...

This study aims to contribute the improvement of chickpea agri-food industry and adapt it future challenges. For this, effect a Rhizobacteria-based biostimulant mixture was analyzed in Amelia variety (Cicer arietinum L.) two different experiments: one flowerpots greenhouse other field grown under rainfed conditions. Germination success, vegetative development phenological stages plants were stu...

This study presents genome-wide discovery of SNPs through next generation sequencing of the genome of Cicer reticulatum. Mapping of the C. reticulatum sequenced reads onto the draft genome assembly of C. arietinum (desi chickpea) resulted in identification of 842,104 genomic SNPs which were utilized along with an additional 36,446 genic SNPs identified from transcriptome sequences of the aforem...