Chaturvedi, S.K. and Mishra, D.K. and Vyas, P. and Mishra, N. (2009) Breeding for Cold Tolerance in Chickpea. Trends in Biosciences, 2 (2). pp. 1-4.
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Abstract
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), a winter season crop, is the 4th largest grain-legume crop in the world. In India, among various grain legumes grown chickpea ranks 1st covering 8.25 m ha area during 2008-09. Being a cool-season crop, chickpea faces low temperature to the tune of 0-5°C for about 15-20 days in the northern states. The sensitivity of varieties at flowering to chilling temperature below 10°C has adverse effect on chickpea production (15-20% yield losses). The development of varieties possessing cold/low temperature tolerance is viable option for enhancing chickpea production and productivity in low temperature environments of countries like India, Canada and Australia. In present paper, attempts have been made to define cold/low temperature stress in relation to chickpea for different growing environments/countries. Various screening techniques and scoring index in vogue, availability of donors, genetics of cold tolerance, different aspects of varieties development including problems and prospects have been discussed
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Chickpea, cold tolerance, production, environment, review |
| Author Affiliation: | Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, 208 024 |
| Subjects: | Crop Improvement > Genetics/Genomics Crop Improvement > Plant Breeding |
| Divisions: | Chickpea |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2012 03:25 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2012 03:25 |
| Official URL: | http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:tb... |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/8944 |
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