1Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda-210 001, Uttar Pradesh, India
2ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal-132 001, Haryana, India
*Corresponding Author: Hitesh Kumar, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda-210 001, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email: hiteshkmr25@gmail.com
Online published on 4 October, 2024.
The characterization of chickpea genetic resources is a vital step to explore genetic variability in breeding programs. In the present study, we characterized 90 germplasm lines of desi chickpea collected across the Indian chickpea growing region. The identified trait-specific germplasm lines will be used as a valuable genetic resource for the chickpea improvement programme.
An experiment was conducted in augmented design to characterize germplasm lines of chickpea for 13 qualitative and 17 quantitative agro-morphological traits under Bundelkhand agro-climatic conditions.
Ample variation was observed for qualitative and quantitative traits. The study revealed that the presences of high variability in qualitative and quantitative traits are useful in the identification of plant genotype for a specific trait, genetic purity analysis, germplasm conservation and also possible use of potential genotype in the breeding program.
Cicer arietinum L., Germplasm, Morphological, Phenological, Variability
