Growth and yield response of chickpea to Rhizobium inoculation: productivity in relation to interception of radiation

Abstract

To test the taxonomy of medical Astragalus penduliflorus complex and specific status of A. petrovii, eleven accessions (covering four species) in China were sampled herein for an AFLP study. A total of 346 informative polymorphic bands from eight primers pairs were obtained, dendrogram was generated using UPGMA analysis. The results indicated A. membranaceus is more morphologically and generically diverse than A. mongholicus on the populational level. Both of them and the former species A. minhensis were degraded as three varieties of A. penduliflorus. In the light of morphological and cladistic evidence, a new combination, A. penduliflorus ssp. mongholicus var. petrovii was proposed based on former species A. petrovii.

Effect of planting date and genotype on intercepted radiation and radiation use efficiency in chickpea crop (Cicer arietinum L.)

“…In support of this, the late maturing genotypes reached the peak of radiation interception a week after the early and medium maturing genotypes suggesting a longer LAD in the late genotypes. The effect of management practices on LAD in chickpea has been reported previously at the site of the current study (Ogola, 2015). Earlier, Anwar et al (2003) attributed the variation in total intercepted radiation amongst chickpea genotypes to a similar genotypic variation in days to physiological maturity.…”

“…Although we did not measure canopy size directly in this study, it is clear from equation 7, famously known as the Monsi and Saeki (1953) equation, and Figure 2a & b that canopy size was greater in early sowing compared to the control and late sowing Gautam et al, 2019). Moreover, early sowing recorded higher peak values of Fi and also reached peak values of Fi almost 14 days later than the control and late sowing, suggesting that the early sowing recorded greater leaf area duration (Bhattacharya, 2018;Ogola, 2015).…”

“…Although the late maturing genotypes, Range 4 & 5 had 13.1-22.7% greater biomass (Table 2) and 19.9-29.1% greater cumulative IR (Table 3) than the rest of the genotypes in experiment I, they did not record the highest εb in this study. This suggests that in the well-watered experiment, the greater cumulative IR in the late maturing genotypes (which also had greater plant height and larger crop canopy) did not translate into correspondingly greater biomass probably because part of the IR was at lower canopy levels where irradiance limited photosynthesis (Ogola, 2015).…”

“…The low seed yield in chickpea may be a result of several factors such as poor fertilizer management (Macil et al, 2020), pest and disease management, and suboptimal resource capture and their utilization. Whilst fertilizer management (Naderi et al, 2021), irrigation application (Seval et al, 2020) and crop protection methods (Khaliq et al, 2020;Mohammed et al, 2020) have been reported extensively in literature, strategies to optimize the interception of radiation and its utilization in chickpea has not been fully reported to improve crop productivity of the crop (Ogola, 2015). Traditionally, chickpea yield response from radiation interception and its use efficiency has been reported by several workers (Fotiadis et al, 2017;Lusiba et al, 2018;Ogola, 2015), but there are limited studies that integrate the effect of planting date and genotype on the ecophysiological evaluation of aboveground biomass and grain yield production of chickpea (Lake & Sadras, 2017).…”

Role of Rhizobium in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) production - A review

“…Similarly, Maleki et al (2009) conducted a pot experiment in Iran and reported higher yield where rhizobial inoculation was done as compared to uninoculated control. Furthur, Ogola (2015) from South Africa reported increase in the grain yield to the tune of 7.9% with Rhizobium inoculation in a clayey and slightly acidic soil.…”