LEGUME

The journal of the International Legume Society

Issue 3 • June 2014

The timeless chickpea Big hearts pulse within pods

PERSPECTIVES

ISSN

2340-1559 (electronic issue)

Quarterly publication

January, April, July and October,

with an open possibility of publishing additional issues

Published by

International Legume Society (ILS)

Co-published by

Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad, Serbia

CSIC, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Córdoba, Spain

Publishing Director

Diego Rubiales

CSIC, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Córdoba, Spain

diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es

Office and subscriptions

CSIC, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture

International Legume Society

Apdo. 4084, 14080 Córdoba, Spain

Phone: +34957499215 • Fax: +34957499252

diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es

Front cover photo

Teresa Millán

IMPRESSUM

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Diego Rubiales

Assistant Editors

Mike Ambrose (genetic resources), Paolo Annicchiarico (lucerne),

Birte Boelt (seed production), Beat Boller (clovers), Ousmane

Boukar (cowpea), Judith Burstin (pea), Marina Carbonaro

(pharmaceutical uses), Branko Šupina (non-food uses), Vuk

Đorđeviš (soybean), Gérard Duc (faba bean), Noel Ellis (genomics),

Sara Fondevilla (bioinformatics), Bernadette Julier (breeding),

Branislav Kovačeviš (black locust), Kevin McPhee (genetics),

Aleksandar Medoviš (archaeobotany), Aleksandar Mikiš (vetches),

Teresa Millán (chickpea), Fred Muehlbauer (lentil), Ramakrishnan

Nair (food uses), Pádraig O‟Kiely (feed uses), Dejan Pajiš

(scientometrics), Diego Rubiales (biotic stress), Christophe Salon

(phenomics), Marta Santalla (common bean), Petr Smýkal (wild

relatives), Frederick L. Stoddard (abiotic stress), Wojciech Święncicki

(lupins), Richard Thompson (Medicago truncatula), Rajeev Varshney

(pigeon pea), Carlota Vaz Patto (vetchlings), Tom Warkentin

(quality), Christine Watson (agronomy), Ping Wan (adzuki bean),

Daniel Wipf (symbiosis)

Technical Editor

Aleksandar Mikiš

Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad, Serbia

aleksandar.mikic@nsseme.com

FOR AUTHORS

Legume Perspectives is an international peer-reviewed journal aiming

to interest and inform a worldwide multidisciplinary readership on

very different aspects of legume research and use, including genetics,

agronomy, animal production, human nutrition and health and

economics.

Our journal prefers review articles on different legume species and

crops and various legume research topics. The structure of review

articles is rather loose by not strictly following structure of original

research articles. Please write your article so that it will assist in the

exchange of information between people working in different expert

fields of legume research: write to the length requested; provide a

review of the most important information on your topic; try to

explain specialist words, unusual jargon and acronyms; emphasise

results and conclusions; choose titles carefully and add subheadings

that tell readers something. Legume Perspectives prefers a clear, simple

and comprehensive writing style that would make its articles

interesting and useful for both academic and amateur audience.

In case of original research articles, we strongly recommend a

typical structure with a very concise and clear presentation of the

obtained results and their significance.

We do encourage you to submit either longer (1,250 words + 2

tables, figures or photos + up to 8 references) or shorter (450 words

+ 1 table, figure, photograph or drawing + up to 4 references)

manuscripts. The Editorial Board may allow any variation from case

to case. Please provide also an additional abstract of between 90 and

100 words and from 4 to 6 key words listed alphabetically.

The manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Office Word,

using Times New Roman font, 12 points size. The references should

be listed and numbered alphabetically, following the style of any of

the published papers in this issue. The tables may be incorporated in

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Please send your prepared manuscripts for publishing in Legume

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3Legume Perspectives Issue 3 • June 2014

s

e are pleased to

present this issue

of Legume

Perspectives

devoted to chickpea, a highly

valued food legume with

continuously increasing

international demand. The

characteristics that make this

legume special include high

drought tolerance, wide

adaptation, high nutritional

qualities and diversified food

uses. This issue is aimed at

providing information on the

recent developments in global

chickpea research directly

from the experts. The topics

covered include general

aspects of the crop, such as

origin, phenology and

adaptation, genomic

resources, major abiotic and

biotic constraints, agronomy

and nutritional quality. In

addition, reports from major

chickpea growing countries on

current status of chickpea

production, constraints and

major achievements have been

provided. We hope that the

information provided here

would be useful to the readers

and further stimulate interest in

the crop and interactions

among chickpea researchers.

On behalf of the International

Legume Society, we wish to

thank all the authors for their

valuable contributions.

Pooran Gaur and Teresa Millán

Managing Editors of

Legume Perspectives issue 3

W CONTENTSEDITORIAL

CARTE BLANCHE

4 Juan Gil: A good companion of Man

RESEARCH

5 José I. Cubero: Chickpea in history

7 Aleksandar Mikić: Diversity of the words denoting chickpea in modern European

languages

8 Jens D. Berger: An evolutionary perspective on the role of phenology in the specific

adaptation of chickpea

12 Teresa Millán, Eva Madrid, Rajeev K. Varshney: Genomic resources in chickpea

15 Pooran Gaur, Samineni Srinivasan, Rajeev Varshney: Drought and heat tolerance in

chickpea

18 Timothy D. Colmer, Vincent Vadez: Salt tolerance in chickpea: Towards an

understanding of sensitivity to salinity and prospects for breeding for improved resistance

20 Suresh Pande, Mamta Sharma: Resistance to Ascochyta blight in chickpea (Cicer

arietinum L.)

23 Weidong Chen, Patricia Castro, M. Jose Cobos: Resistance to Fusarium wilt in chickpea

25 Hari C. Sharma, Pooran M. Gaur, Samineni Srinivasan, C.L. Laxmipathi Gowda:

Exploiting host plant resistance for pest management in chickpea

29 Kadambot H.M. Siddique, Lakshmanan Krishnamurthy: Chickpea production technology

33 Manu P. Gangola, Monica Båga, Pooran M. Gaur, Ravindra N. Chibbar: Chickpea –

nutritional quality and role in alleviation of global malnourishment

36 Julia Carreras, María José Allende, Alberto Saluzzo, Susana Avalos, Vilma Mazzuferi,

Norma Ateca, Susana Garcia Medina, Claudio Panadero Pastrana: Chickpea crop in

Argentina: An opportunity to diversify the national production

39 Cecilia Baginsky G.: Chickpea: A crop of soon recovery in Chile

41 Kristy Hobson, Ted Knights, Eric Armstrong, Michael Materne, Larn McMurray, Col

Douglas, Ian Pritchard: An overview of chickpea breeding programs in Australia

44 Bunyamin Tar’an: An overview of chickpea breeding program in Canada

47 Asnake Fikre: An overview of chickpea improvement research program in Ethiopia

50 Sushil K. Chaturvedi, Neelu Mishra, Pooran M. Gaur: An overview of chickpea breeding

programs in India

53 Sayyed H. Sabaghpour: An overview of chickpea breeding programs in Iran

55 Paul K. Kimurto, Bernard Towett, Richard S. Mulwa, Nancy Njogu, Alice Kosgei, Serah

Songok, Moses Oyier, Daniel Rutto, Paul Korir, Gangarao Rao, Said Silim, Peter Kaloki, Ruth

Muruiki, Grace Barmao, Joseph K. Macharia: An overview of chickpea breeding programs

in Kenya

58 Moez Amri, Mariem Bouhadida, Mohamed H. Halila, Mohamed Kharrat: Chickpea

cropping and breeding program: An overview on the Tunisian situation

62 Mar Mar Win, Tun Shwe, Pooran M. Gaur: An overview of chickpea breeding

programs in Myanmar

65 Asghar Ali, Shahid R. Malik: An overview of chickpea breeding program in Pakistan

69 Josefa Rubio, Teresa Millán, Juan Gil: An overview of chickpea breeding programs in

Spain

71 Robert O. Kileo: An overview of chickpea breeding programs in Tanzania

74 Cengiz Toker, Fatma Oncu Ceylan, Zeynep Oz