Chickpea is one of the most important leguminous, food crop. Conventional breeding has resulted in several important improvements in this crop. Chickpea is an important part of human nutrition as it has good nutritional value. This results suggest that a collective effect of superior morphological and physiological root traits confers better nutrition of chickpea genotypes in low nutrient soil conservation. We investigated the morphological (root length, root hairs) and physiological (root exudation of protons and phosphatase enzymes) root traits and related them to uptake of twelve nutrients by ten selected breeding lines of chickpea. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) acts as a signaling molecule that plays a very crucial role in maintaining normal plant growth. Salinity causes loss of chickpea crop in various regions and salt accumulates Na+ and Cl-ions in the tissues of plant that causes detrimental effects to chickpea. The increase of ROS can be decreased by the addition of Nod Factors (NFs) in the root hair cells. The level of calcium ions increases that lead to increase in the ROS species accumulated at the top of root hair cells.

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