“…Direct shoot organogenesis and establishment of plantlets from different explants of chickpea was reported earlier (Polisetty et al, 1996(Polisetty et al, , 1997Paul et al, 2000;Rizvi and Singh, 2000;Chauhan et al, 2003;Jayanand et al, 2003;Chakraborti et al, 2006). Plantlets were developed through direct somatic embryogenesis and through callus from different explants of chickpea (Barna and Wakhlu, 1993;Sagare et al, 1993;Suhasini et al, 1994;Kumar et al, 1994Kumar et al, , 1995Rizvi and Singh, 2000;Chauhan et al, 2002;Kar et al, 1996Kar et al, , 1997Kiran et al, 2005).…”