Chickpea, chick pea, Egyptian bean, gram pea, Bengal gram [English]; garbanzo [Spanish]; pois chiche [French]; grão-de-bico, ervilha-de-bengala [Portuguese]; kikkererwt [Dutch]; Kichererbse [German]; kacang arab [Indonesian]; cece [Italian]; nohut [Turkish]; Đậu gà [Vietnamese]; [Amharic]; صمّـحِلا [Arabic]; [Bengali]; 鹰嘴豆 [Chinese]; دوخن [Farsi]; Ρεβιθιά [Greek]; [Gujarati]; הצמח [Hebrew]; [Hind...

Turbidity imparts a great problem in water treatment. Moringa oleifera, Cicer arietinum, and Dolichos lablab were used as locally available natural coagulants in this study to reduce turbidity of synthetic water. The tests were carried out, using artificial turbid water with conventional jar test apparatus. Optimum mixing intensity and duration were determined. After dosing water-soluble extrac...

The issue of balanced nutrition is of great concern to human. Meat and fish are the best sources of protein. The affordability of these resources for people in developing countries is less. Thus, there is an increasing interest in pulses and its derivates as an alternative to fish and meat. Lectin and histone H1 are the most common proteins in various pulses and our interest is in identifying t...

Cicer Arietinum (Leguminosae) is an annual herb, known as local Indian name ‘Kala Chana’. Its root was extracted using solvents of different polarities and explored for invitro free radical scavenging activity. Preliminary assays of three different extracts of Cicer Arietinum root, scavenges 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl stable free radicals in concentration dependent manner. All studied extra...

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...

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...

Members of the primary gene pool of the chickpea, including 38 accessions of Cicer arietinum, six of C. reticulatum and four of C. echinospermum grown in India were investigated using 100 SSR markers to analyze their genetic structure, diversity and relationships. We found considerable diversity, with a mean of 4.8 alleles per locus (ranging from 2 to 11); polymorphic information content r...

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...

utes is more a consequence of damage produced by salt stress than of a protective strategy. Plants of chick-pea (Cicer arietinum L. cv. ILC1919) inoculated with Mesorhizobium ciceri strain ch–191