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Associations among Fusarium wilt resistance, flower colour and number of flowers per fruiting node in chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.)

author(s) Singh, H - Kumar, J - Smithson, J B - Haware, M P
from International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
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Singh, H and Kumar, J and Smithson, J B and Haware, M P (1988) Associations among Fusarium wilt resistance, flower colour and number of flowers per fruiting node in chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.). The Journal of Agricultural Science, 110 (2). pp. 407-409. ISSN 0021-8596

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Abstract

Corolla colour in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is white or various shades of pink or blue (Smithson, Thompson & Summerfield, 1985). Normally, a leaf axil subtends a single peduncle bearing a single flower but ‘double-flowered’ types, where a pro-portion of the peduncles subtends two flowers, are not uncommon and produce 6–11 % more seed yield than the normal single-flowered type

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