Temperature-stratified screening of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genetic resource collections reveals very limited reproductive chilling tolerance compared to its annual wild relatives

Berger, Jens; Kumar, Sanjeev; Nayyar, Harsh; Street, Kenneth; Sandhu, J.S.; Henzell, Jennifer M.; Kaur, Jagmeet; Clarke, Heather

doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2011.09.020

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“…Also, it would improve the regeneration efficiency of wild Cicer species by genebanks and offer convenient alternate methods for rapid generation turnover. and abiotic stresses (Stamigna et al, 2000;Collard et al, 2001;Croser et al, 2003;Rao et al, 2003;Pande et al, 2006;Sharma et al, 2005;Toker et al, 2007;Berger et al, 2012;Canci and Toker, 2009) that chickpea is exposed to. It is difficult to cross wild Cicer species with cultivated chickpea in India (particularly in southern India) because of inappropriate phenology, probably as a result of a vernalization requirement (Berger et al, 2005) and possibly a daylength response.…”

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“…and abiotic stresses (Stamigna et al, 2000;Collard et al, 2001;Croser et al, 2003;Rao et al, 2003;Pande et al, 2006;Sharma et al, 2005;Toker et al, 2007;Berger et al, 2012;Canci and Toker, 2009) that chickpea is exposed to. However, longer duration of wild Cicer species and nonsynchronization of flowering with cultigen remains a major deterrence for their use in chickpea improvement.…”

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Vernalization and Photoperiod Response in Annual Wild Cicer Species and Cultivated Chickpea

Sharma

Upadhyaya

2015

Crop Science

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Wild Cicer species possess high levels of resistance to many stresses and can contribute to enhance levels of resistances besides broadening the genetic base of cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). However, longer duration of wild Cicer species and nonsynchronization of flowering with cultigen remains a major deterrence for their use in chickpea improvement. In this study, the response to vernalization (V), photoperiod (P), and combination of both (V + P) was studied in terms of rate of progress toward flowering in cultivated and wild Cicer species belonging to primary, secondary, and tertiary gene pools. Both V and P treatments, alone and in combination, significantly increased the rate of progress toward flowering in wild Cicer species compared with control. Effect of P in increasing the rate of progress toward flowering was significantly higher than V in C. reticulatum Ladiz., C. echinospermum P. H. Davis, C. judaicum Boiss., C. pinnatifidum Jaub. & Spach, C. bijugum Rech. f., and C. yamashitae Kitam. and vice versa in C. chorassanicum (Bunge) Popov and C. cuneatum Hochst. ex A. Rich. Synergistic effects of V and P were observed in C. bijugum, C. yamashitae, C. chorassanicum, and C. cuneatum. However, both V and P treatments had minimal effect on the rate of progress toward flowering in early‐maturing and greater effects on medium‐ and late‐maturing chickpea varieties. These results would contribute significantly to enhance use of wild Cicer species for chickpea improvement through synchronization of flowering facilitating hybridization. Also, it would improve the regeneration efficiency of wild Cicer species by genebanks and offer convenient alternate methods for rapid generation turnover.

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Vernalization and Photoperiod Response in Annual Wild Cicer Species and Cultivated Chickpea

Sharma

Upadhyaya

2015

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“…However, Bhardwaj and Sandhu ( 2009 ) reported that cold tolerance is under the control of a single recessive gene. Screening of wild Cicer species showed promising traits for cold tolerance (Berger et al 2012 ), but till now there are no reports of introgression of cold tolerance from wild to the cultivated chickpea.…”

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Chickpea

Singh

Kapoor

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Broadening the Genetic Base of Grain Legumes

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The narrow genetic base of cultivated chickpea warrants systematic collection, documentation and evaluation of chickpea germplasm and particularly wild Cicer species for effective and effi cient use in chickpea breeding programmes. Limiting factors to crop production, possible solutions and ways to overcome them, importance of wild relatives and barriers to alien gene introgression and strategies to overcome them and traits for base broadening have been discussed. It has been clearly demonstrated that resistance to major biotic and abiotic stresses can be successfully introgressed from the primary gene pool comprising progenitor species. However, many desirable traits including high degree of resistance to multiple stresses that are present in the species belonging to secondary and tertiary gene pools can also be introgressed by using special techniques to overcome pre-and post-fertilization barriers. Besides resistance to various biotic and abiotic stresses, the yield QTLs have also been introgressed from wild Cicer species to cultivated varieties. Status and importance of molecular markers, genome mapping and genomic tools for chickpea improvement are elaborated. Because of major genes for various biotic and abiotic stresses, the transfer of agronomically important traits into elite cultivars has been made easy and practical through marker-assisted selection and marker-assisted backcross. The usefulness of molecular markers such as SSR and SNP for the construction of high-density genetic maps of chickpea and for the identifi cation of genes/QTLs for stress resistance, quality and yield contributing traits has also been discussed.

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“…Davis; and (iii) tertiary genepool, which includes remaining six cross‐incompatible annual and 35 perennial wild Cicer species. High levels of resistance or tolerance to important biotic and abiotic stresses such as AB (Singh and Reddy 1993; Stamigna et al, 2000; Collard et al, 2001; Rao et al, 2003; Croser et al, 2003; Shah et al, 2005; Pande et al, 2006), fusarium wilt (Infantino et al, 1996; Croser et al, 2003; Rao et al, 2003), BGM (Stevenson and Haware 1999; Rao et al, 2003; Pande et al, 2006), DRR, Helicoverpa pod borer (Sharma et al, 2005), drought (Croser et al, 2003; Kashiwagi et al, 2005; Toker et al, 2007), cold (Croser et al, 2003; Toker 2005; Berger et al, 2012), and high seed protein (Rao et al, 2003) have been reported in wild Cicer species.…”

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Prebreeding Using Wild Species for Genetic Enhancement of Grain Legumes at ICRISAT

Sharma

2017

Crop Science

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Like many other major crops, ICRISAT's mandate grain legume crops have a narrow genetic base. The production and productivity of these crops is adversely affected by different biotic and abiotic stresses, and high levels of resistance or tolerance to these stresses are not available in the cultivated genepool. In contrast, wild species harbor many useful genes and have potential to thrive well under climatic extremities. However, utilization of these wild species for the genetic improvement of crop cultivars is hindered mainly due to ploidy level differences between cultivated and wild species, cross‐incompatibility barriers, and linkage drag. Systematic prebreeding efforts involving wild species of Cicer, Cajanus, and Arachis as donors and popular well‐adapted cultivars of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.], and groundnut (Arachis hypogea L.) as recipient parents, respectively, have led to the development of new genepools having good agronomic performance and higher frequency of useful genes and alleles introgressed from wild species. Evaluation of a few populations for biotic stresses and yield‐related traits resulted in the identification of desirable introgression lines (ILs) that have been shared with NARS for use in breeding programs. Overall, prebreeding ensures continuous supply of novel and diverse genetic variability derived from wild species in readily usable form into the breeding pipelines to develop new climate‐resilient cultivars with a broad genetic base.

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Temperature-stratified screening of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genetic resource collections reveals very limited reproductive chilling tolerance compared to its annual wild relatives

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Vernalization and Photoperiod Response in Annual Wild Cicer Species and Cultivated Chickpea

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