Chickpea Breeding at ICRISAT
The chickpea crop
A cool-season, self-pollinated legume
Second largest grown food legume in the world with an area of about 11.0 m ha across more than 50 countries.
Types of chickpeas
Research Strategies
abiotic stresses
Salient achievements
Adoption and impacts of improved
cultivars: Examples
materials were
A chickpea plant.Desi (left) and Kabuli (right).
Uses and nutritional quality
of chickpea
small proportion of grains used for animal feed.
Green pods, grains and leaves (right)
and some food preparations (left).
Drought stress. Salinity stress. Heat stress.
Major breeding objectives
Helicoverpa armigera
Fusarium wilt. Ascochyta blight. Botrytis grey mold. Pod borer.
An FPVS trial in Myanmar.
Variety Chefe in Ethiopia.
Diseases affecting chickpea
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