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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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Adaptation studies of some chickpea genotypes in Moroccan conditions
Chafika Houasli 1 , Omar Idrissi 1 , Imtiaz Muhammad 2
1 National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Dryland center of Settat, Morocco
2 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Syria
This study was carried out to identify adapted (suitable) and high yielding genotypes of chickpea
(Cicer arietinum) for Dryland Moroccan regions. In this endeavor, 40 chickpea genotypes (from
different countries and selected randomly from the ICARDA chickpea germplasm collection)
were evaluated during 2009/2010, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 planting seasons at Jemâat Shaim
research station. The experiment was carried out in alpha-lattice design (8*5) with two
replications. During the season, characters such as number of days from sowing to flowering and
to maturity, ascochyta blight score, and plant height were recorded or determined. Data on
weight of one hundred seeds and yield were recorded from the middle 3 m of the plots to avoid
border effects. The results of present study showed that mean square of genotypes for all
characters were significant. FLIP 84-92C, FLIP 81-71C, FLIP 98-121C and FLIP 93-58C were
selected for their high seed yield. FLIP 85-1C, FLIP 97-503C, FLIP 97-677C, FLIP86-5C, FLIP
87-8C and FLIP 86-6C were selected for their large seeds. FLIP 98-121C had the tallest plants
and was selected for its high seed yield and large seed size. All of those genotypes selected, were
also resistant to ascochyta blight. It was assumed that the selected genotypes could be proposed
for catalogue registration or be used in breeding programs.
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