caa a22 4500 477135471 CHVBK 20180405111716.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1003004516921 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1003004516921 Morphological variation in wild annual Cicer species in comparison to the cultigen [Elektronische Daten] [L.D. Robertson, B. Ocampo, K.B. Singh] Wild species have been exploited for the transfer of useful genes in most of the major crops, but little has been done in chickpea improvement. Therefore, 228 accessions of eight annual wild Cicer species plus 20 domesticated kabuli chickpea lines were evaluated for 23 vegetative, flower, fruit and seed descriptors at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria, during 1993/94 to identify useful variations. Large differences between the cultivated and the annual wild taxa were found, especially for leaf area, growth habit, plant height, first pod height, pod dehiscence and 100-seed weight. These findings suggest that these traits underwent major changes during domestication. Although only a small sample of the cultigen was included in this study, C. arietinum showed greater morphological variability compared with the wild taxa. Among the wild taxa, C. reticulatum, C. echinospermum and C. bijugum had the largest variability and were also morphologically closest to the cultigen. Overall, the annual wild Cicer species were of no advantage for direct genetic improvement of agronomic traits in chickpea. Nevertheless, interesting variability was found for a few descriptors: wide leaflets in C. chorassanicum; many branches in C. bijugum and C. reticulatum; and early flowering in C. judaicum. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997 chickpea nationallicence Cicer arietinum nationallicence Cicer echinospermum nationallicence Cicer reticulatum nationallicence Cicer species nationallicence genetic resources nationallicence Robertson L.D. Genetic Resources Unit, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria aut Ocampo B. Germplasm Program, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria aut Singh K.B. Germplasm Program, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria aut Euphytica Kluwer Academic Publishers 95/3(1997-06-01), 309-319 0014-2336 95:3<309 1997 95 10681 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003004516921 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003004516921 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Robertson L.D. Genetic Resources Unit, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ocampo B. Germplasm Program, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Singh K.B. Germplasm Program, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Euphytica Kluwer Academic Publishers 95/3(1997-06-01), 309-319 0014-2336 95:3<309 1997 95 10681 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer