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Book of Abstracts First Legume Society Conference 2013: A Legume Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013
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Evaluation of Cicer species for resistance to leaf miner (Liriomyza cicerina Rond.)
F Öncü Ceylan, Cengiz Toker
Akdeniz University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field Crops, Antalya, Turkey
In Mediterranean region including Turkey, damage of leaf miner (Liriomyza cicerina Rond.) is
estimated as about 40% yield loses in the cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). The most
economic method for leaf miner control is to use resistant varieties (Singh ve Weigand, 1994). In
this study, 130 genotypes of wild (Cicer reticulatum, Cicer echinospermum) and the cultivated chickpea
were evaluated for resistance to leaf miner using 1-9 scale (1-4 = resistant and 5-9= susceptible)
for two years in 2011-12 and 2012-13 growing seasons. Damage of leaf miner decreased from
bigger leaflets to smaller ones and from simple and/or normal leaves to multipinnate ones. It is
assumed that multipinnate genotypes have structural resistance by having the scores of 2-4 on 1-9
scale. Also, it was observed that wild genotypes were more resistant than the cultivated ones.
According the obtained results, it was concluded that AWC 611 having multipinnate leaf, a
mutant derived from C. reticulatum Ladiz., was the best resistant sources for leaf miner and can be
used in breeding programs.
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