Responsiveness of cold tolerant chickpea characteristics in fall and spring planting: I- phenology and morphology

پژوهشهای زراعی ایران

Article 13, Volume 3, Issue 1 - Serial Number 5, 2005, Pages 143-155   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/gsc.v3i1.1299

Authors

A Nezami^* ; A Bagheri

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Abstract

Although some cold tolerant chickpeas have been recognized for fall planting in the highlands of Northeastern Iran, there is no information about the growth and development of these accessions. The study was undertaken to evaluate the phenology and morphology of cold tolerant chickpeas in fall and spring planting. Thirty three chickpea genotypes (32 cold tolerant genotypes and one susceptible genotyp) across four planting date (28 Sep., 16 Oct., 2 Nov. and 7 Mar.) were sown during 2000-2001 growing season at the experimental field of college of agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as a split plot design with two replications. The planting dates were imposed as main plot and chickpea genotypes as subplot. Effects of planting dates on days from planting to emergence, vegetative growth, growth stage before cold, height of plant at harvest and number. and length of branches per plant were significant (p