Genetic Resources

Now the chickpea genome has been sequenced!

Coordinators:

o	Hari Upadhyaya, ICRISAT, India
o	Claire Coyne, USDA-ARS/WSU, USA


About:
Availability and characterization of suitable germplasm is a critical factor for utilizing genetic variation in crop breeding. Fortunately for chickpea, a large number of accessions are present in different genebanks (mainly at ICRISAT, ICARDA, USDA, NBPGR, IIPR) throughout the world. For an effective utilization of germplasm in breeding, core collection (Upadhyaya et al. 2001), mini-core collection (Upadhyaya and Ortiz 2001) and reference collection (Upadhyaya et al. 2008). Large scale phenotyping and genotyping of these collections should be able to provide suitable germplasm as well as candidate markers for breeding applications.


Key publications:

Upadhyaya HD, Ortiz R (2001) A mini core subset for capturing diversity and promoting utilization of chickpea genetic resources. Theor Appl Genet 102:1292-1298 Upadhyaya HD, Bramel PJ, Singh S (2001) Development of a chickpea core subset using geographic distribution and quantitative traits. Crop Sci 41:206-210 Upadhyaya HD, Furman BJ, Dwivedi SL, Udupa SM, Gowda CLL, Baum M, Crouch JH, Buhariwalla HK, Singh S (2006) Development of a composite collection for mining germplasm possessing allelic variation for beneficial traits in chickpea. Plant Genetic Resources 4:13-19 Upadhyaya HD, Dwivedi SL, Baum M, Varshney RK, Udupa SM, Gowda CLL, Hoisington D, Singh S (2008) Genetic structure, diversity and allelic richness in composite collection and reference set in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). BMC Plant Biol 8:106


Publications in 2009:

Clement SL, Sharma HC, Muehlbauer FJ, Elberson LR, Mattinson DS, Fellman JK (2010) Resistance to beet armyworm in a chickpea recombinant inbred line population. J Appl Entomol 134: 1-8 Coyne CJ, Taylor LD, Varshney RK (2009) Allelic diversity of USDA chickpea core collection of quantitative trait loci for resistance to ascochyta blight. Second International Ascochyta Workshop, June 29-July 2, 2009 Pullman, Washington, USA Dwevedi KK, Lal GM (2009) Assessment of genetic diversity of cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Asian J Agril Sci 1: 7-8 Gupta S, Chakraborti D, Sengupta A, Basu D, Das S (2010) Primary metabolism of chickpea is the initial target of wound inducing early sensed Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri Race I. PLoS ONE 5: e9030 Hameed A, Shah TM, Atta BM, Iqbal N, Haq MA, Ali H (2009) Comparative seed storage protein profiling of kabuli chickpea genotypes. Pak J Bot 41: 703-710 Jomová K, Benková M, Kraic J (2009) Enrichment of chickpea genetic resources collection monitored by microsatellites. Czech J Genet Plant Breed 45: 11–17 Krouma A (2009) Differences in response of some Tunisian chickpea genotypes (Cicer arietinum L.) to salinity. Pak J Bot 41: 3081-3091 Singh A, Singh NP (2009) Estimation of genetic parameters in recombinant inbred population derived from interspecific cross of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Indian J Genet 69: 122-126