Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Acronyms
- Chapter 1 Cassava
- Chapter 2 The Potato
- Chapter 3 Sweetpotato
- Chapter 4 Other Andean Roots and Tubers
- Chapter 5 Yams
- Chapter 6 Banana and Plantain
- Chapter 7 Cowpea
- Chapter 8 Chickpea
- Chapter 9 Groundnut
- Chapter 10 Lentil
- Chapter 11 Phaseolus Beans
- Chapter 12 Pigeonpea
- Chapter 13 Faba Bean
- Chapter 14 Soyabean
- Chapter 15 Barley
- Chapter 16 Maize, Tripsacum and Teosinte
- Chapter 17 Pearl Millet
- Chapter 18 Small Millets
- Chapter 19 Rice
- Chapter 20 Sorghum
- Chapter 21 Wheat
- Chapter 22 Forages
- Index
Chapter 8 - Chickpea
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Acronyms
- Chapter 1 Cassava
- Chapter 2 The Potato
- Chapter 3 Sweetpotato
- Chapter 4 Other Andean Roots and Tubers
- Chapter 5 Yams
- Chapter 6 Banana and Plantain
- Chapter 7 Cowpea
- Chapter 8 Chickpea
- Chapter 9 Groundnut
- Chapter 10 Lentil
- Chapter 11 Phaseolus Beans
- Chapter 12 Pigeonpea
- Chapter 13 Faba Bean
- Chapter 14 Soyabean
- Chapter 15 Barley
- Chapter 16 Maize, Tripsacum and Teosinte
- Chapter 17 Pearl Millet
- Chapter 18 Small Millets
- Chapter 19 Rice
- Chapter 20 Sorghum
- Chapter 21 Wheat
- Chapter 22 Forages
- Index
Summary
Cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a diploid, self-pollinated, leguminous crop that ranks second in area and third in production among the pulses. It is cultivated primarily for its protein-rich seed, and the plant is an efficient symbiotic nitrogen-fixer, playing an important role in farming systems. Two types of chickpea are grown: desi, with angular and coloured seeds, primarily grown in South Asia; and kabuli, with large, owl-head shape and beige-coloured seeds, grown in the Mediterranean region. Germplasm is maintained at ICRISAT (Patancheru: 18°N, 78°E) and ICARDA (Tel Hadya: 35°5′N, 36°55′E). Before 1970, wild Cicer species were scarce, but a number of annual species accessions are now available.
BOTANY AND DISTRIBUTION
The name Cicer is of Latin origin and probably derives from the pre-Indo German kichere in the Pelagian language of the tribes populating north Greece before Greek-speaking tribes took over. Chickpea belongs to subfamily Papilionoideae, tribe Viceae Alef, but its position is sufficiently distinct to consider the Cicer genus a tribe of its own, the Cicereae Alef. (Kupicha 1977). Van der Maesen (1987) dealt with this genus in detail and listed 43 species, including 34 wild perennial species, 8 wild annual and the cultivated annual, C. arietinum. The study on chromosome count in Cicer species has been limited because of rare availability of living materials.
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- Biodiversity in TrustConservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources in CGIAR Centres, pp. 100 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997
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