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Registration of ‘Ejere’, a Kabuli Chickpea
Author(s) -
Malhotra R.S.,
Bejiga Geletu,
Anbessa Yadeta,
Eshete Million,
Tadesse Negussie,
Daba Ketama,
Fikre Asnak,
Ahmed Seid,
Khalaf Gaby
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of plant registrations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1940-3496
pISSN - 1936-5209
DOI - 10.3198/jpr2006.08.0518crc
Subject(s) - agriculture , new delhi , political science , library science , geography , archaeology , computer science , metropolitan area
112 Journal of Plant Registrations, Vol. 1, No. 2, September 2007 ‘E jere’ (Reg. No. CV-276, PI 643436) is a Kabuli chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivar developed by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria, and released by the National Chickpea Research Project, Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Center in Ethiopia in 2005. Ejere, tested as ICARDA accession number FLIP 97-263C, is high yielding, resistant to Fusarium wilt [caused by Fusarium oxysporum Schlechtend.: Fr. f. sp. ciceris (Padwick)], semi-erect in growth habit, large-seeded, and recommended for general cultivation in midto high-altitude areas of semimoist agro-ecological zones in Ethiopia. Ejere is a breeding line developed from the cross FLIP 87-59C/ UC15 made in 1994 at ICARDA’s headquarters in Tel Hadya, near Aleppo, Syria (36°01 ́ N, 3656 ́ E, 284 masl). One of the parents, FLIP 87-59C, was also developed at ICARDA, following pedigree selection from the cross ILC 3843/FLIP 82-130C made in 1985. Similarly, FLIP 82-130C was developed at ICARDA from the cross ILC 262/ILC 783 made in 1979. The F 1 between FLIP 87-59C and UC15 was advanced during the 1994 off-season (June–Oct.) at ICARDA’s research station in Terbol, in the Bequa’a Valley in Lebanon (33°49 ́ N, 35°59 ́ E, 890 m above sea level). F 2 seeds were planted in a Fusarium wiltinfected plot at Tel Hadya in February 1995. Resistant F 2 plants were selected and grown at Terbol in the 1995 off-season in progeny rows. Selected individual F 3 plants from each progeny were harvested and their seeds planted in progeny rows on wiltinfected plots in Tel Hadya. The pedigree method of breeding was followed through F 5 . Finally, agronomically uniform, wiltresistant progenies were bulked in 1997. Seed yield and other agronomic traits were evaluated in a preliminary yield trial at Tel Hadya during the winter season of 1997–1998. Elite lines from this trial were assigned FLIP 97 (Food Legume Improvement Program 1997) numbers by ICARDA and shared with Registration of ‘Ejere’, a Kabuli Chickpea