Effect of moisture stress on agronomic and morpho-physiological traits in chickpea
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53550/jfl.v19i2.2230Keywords:
Chickpea, Cicer arietinum, Moisture stress, Physiological traitsAbstract
Changes in morphological and physiological parameters under rainfed conditions were investigated in 50 chickpea genotypes. The study showed significant genotypic differences for yield attributes under rainfed and irrigated conditions. Productive branches in desi and kabuli genotypes decreased by 17 and 25% under rainfed conditions. There was a delay of 10-12 days in flowering of all the genotypes, and 20 and 10 days in maturity of desi and kabuli genotypes under irrigated conditions. Kabuli genotypes registered higher increment for productive pods, seed yield and biological yield under irrigated conditions as compared to desi genotypes, indicating better efficiency in resource utilization of kabuli type. Considering four groups of genotypes individually, 100-seed weight was more or less constant under both the conditions. The desi cultivars were more suitable for rainfed conditions and kabuli cultivars for irrigated conditions.
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