Terminal drought is one of the major limitations to chickpea production, which results up to 50% of yield losses. Based on extensive genotyping and phenotyping data on ICC 4958 × ICC 1882 recombinant inbred line (RIL) population, a genomic region (~35cM) harbouring several QTLs for drought tolerance related traits was identified on linkage group 04 (LG 04). This region contained only four markers (TAA170, ICCM0249, STMS11 and GA24).
8 Jan 2013