Question

Genetics of flowering time in chickpea and its bearing on productivity in semi arid environments

Answer 1

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.),a grain legume of Near-East origin has a unique natural history. The crop cycle in most of its traditional growing areas is completely different from the autumn germination, spring flowering, and summer maturation of its wild progenitor Cicer reticulatum Ladiz., in eastern Turkey. Millennia of summer cropping in the Near-East and later dissemination into the lower latitude growing areas of eastern Africa and the Indian subcontinent ,as a postrainy season crop, had profound effects on allelic variation in major adaptive loci of chickpea.