Cicer arietinum, Ascochyta rabiei, Elicitor. Isoflavones, Phytoalexins Upon slicing cotyledons of chickpea, Cicer arietinum L ., accumulate the pterocarpan phyto­ alexins medicarpin and maackiain. Treatment of this tissue with an elicitor from the phytopathogenic deuteromycete Ascochyta rabiei (Pass.) Lab. greatly enhances accumulation of the pterocarpans and of other isoflavones and flavonoids...

Photoperiod is one of the major environmental factors determining time to flower initiation and first flower appearance in plants. In chickpea, photoperiod sensitivity, expressed as delayed to flower under short days (SD) as compared to long days (LD), may change with the growth stage of the crop. Photoperiod-sensitive and -insensitive phases were identified by experiments in which individual p...

Investigation of uptake capacity of by nitrated biomass of Cicer arientinum(Bngal gram) is conducted in batch conditions. The effect of different parameters such as contact time, sorbent dose, pH and temperature has been studied. Adsorption kinetic modeling data were found out. The kinetics of biosorption results shows that sorption process is well explained by pseudo–second order model with de...

Phenotypic characteristics of fifty-six rhizobia strains isolated from root nodules of two chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivars, growing in soils collected from different areas of Morocco, were studied. Tolerance to salinity, high temperatures, acid and alkaline pHs, heavy metals and to antibiotics as well as symbiotic and cultural characteristics allowed the description of a wide physiologi...

For millennia, chickpea (Cicer arietinum) has been grown in the Levant sympatrically with wild Cicer species. Chickpea is traditionally spring-sown, while its wild relatives germinate in the autumn and develop in the winter. It has been hypothesized that the human-directed shift of domesticated chickpea to summer production was an attempt to escape the devastating Ascochyta disease caused by Di...

Gram or Chickpea (Cicer arietinum Linnaeus), a member of family Fabaceae, is an ancient leguminous crop which is self pollinated, diploid annual (2N=16 chromosomes) grown since 7000BC, in different area of the world but major cultivation is concentrated in semi-arid environments of different areas of the world. It is ranked 3 rd after common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and pea (Pisum sativum) ...

In this study, two halophilic bacterial strains isolated from saline habitats in Argentina grew in the presence of gas oil. They were identified as Halomonas spp. and Nesterenkonia sp. by 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing. Chemotaxis towards gas oil was observed in Halomonas spp. by using swimming assays.

BACKGROUND The use of traditional foods can enrich our diet, perpetuating important elements of local knowledge and cultural inheritance. Raw, soaked and cooked samples of two Fabaceae species (Cicer arietinum L. and Lathyrus sativus L.) were characterized regarding nutritional and bioactive properties. RESULTS L. sativus gave the highest carbohydrate, protein, ash, saturated fatty acid and p...