This study was conducted to determine grain yield and leaf chlorophyll content of some dry bean varieties in several growing periods in the Konya ecological conditions. The cultivars included were Akman-98, Goksun, Goynuk-98, Karacasehir-90, Noyanbey-98, Onceler-98, Yunus-90 and Zulbiye. The experiments were set up according to Randomized Block Design with 3 replicates through the dry bean growing periods (May-Oct.) of the years 2012-13 in Bahri Dağdas International Agricultural Research Institute Experimental Area. The highest values of SPAD I (early leaf chlororphyll content) were obtained from Yunus-90 with 33.78, SPAD II was shown by Onceler-98 (leaf chlororphyll content at blooming stage) with 41.55 and SPAD III (leaf chlororphyll content after blooming) was obtained from Karacasehir-90 with 42.10. The lowest values of SPAD I and SPAD II were obtained from Akman-98 with the values of 26.18 and 30.57, respectively while Noyanbey-98 showed the lowest SPAD III value with 31.77. Noyanbey-98 produced the highest grain yield with 2574.6 kg ha -1 while the lowest was obtained from Akman-98 with 1045.0 kg ha -1 .

This research was conducted to determine agricultural, technological, and nutritional quality characteristics of local populations and varieties of chickpea collected from Konya ecological environment. In this study, 21 chickpea populations collected from Konya and 5 chickpea varieties were used as research materials. According to field research results, the average of two years, number of vegetation days was 90.33-105.33 days, plant height was 30.45-40.05 cm, number of pod per plant was 20.12-30.42, grain yield was 78.14-154.12 kg/da, thousand seed weight was 363-512.17 gr. Flower color was white, whitepink and white-blue. According to the first year results the amount of calcium (Ca) was 878.23-1635.85 mg/ kg, the amount of phosphorus (P) was 2257.01-3590.37 mg/kg, the amount of potassium (K) was 4698.16-7423.69 mg/kg, the amount of magnesium (Mg) was 799.92-1004.43 mg/kg, the amount of iron (Fe) was 24.44-44.52 mg/kg, the amount of boron (B) was 223.02-494.73 mg/kg, the amount of copper (Cu) was 4.69-8.20 mg/kg and the amount of zinc (Zn) was 18.58-34.33 mg/kg. At the end of the present research, statistically significant differences were determined between local varieties in terms of yield components. These lines were found to be beneficial for the use of genetic resources for the region.

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