1Department of Biochemistry, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004, India
2Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004, India
Department of Botany, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004, India
*Author for correspondence: Email: jagskaur@pau.edu
Online published on 14 July, 2015.
The present investigation was aimed to investigate antinutritional factors in small, medium and bold seeded kabuli chickpea cultivars. Antinutritional traits such as total phenolic content, saponins, bound fructose increased with seed size. Trypsin inhibitor and phytic acid contents were higher in medium-seeded category than other two seed size categories. Phytic acid content and bound fructose was found to be minimum respectively in bold and small seeded cultivars. A dendrogram constructed on the basis of UPGMA clustering method clustered the cultivars into three clusters and a small seeded cultivar GLK26155 remain unclustered from other cultivars and it had lower amount of antinutritional factors. The observed diversity in nutritional traits in kabuli cultivars differing in seed size could be further used in breeding programme.
Antinutritional, chickpea, kabuli, seed size
