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Registration of ‘Teji’, 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/jpr2006.08.0519crc
Subject(s) - agriculture , new delhi , political science , library science , geography , archaeology , computer science , metropolitan area
Journal of Plant Registrations, Vol. 1, No. 2, September 2007 111 T he chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivar ‘Teji’ (Reg. No. CV-277, PI 643437) was developed by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria. It was released for general cultivation in Ethiopia in 2005 by the National Chickpea Research Project, Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Center. Teji, a selection from ‘FLIP 97-266C’, was developed from a cross FLIP 87-58C/UC15 made in 1993–1994 at ICARDA headquarters in Tel Hadya in northern Syria (36.01° N, 36.56 E, 284 m above sea level). One of the parents, FLIP 87-58C was derived from a cross ILC 3777/FLIP 83-46C made in 1985. Similarly, FLIP 83-46C was developed at ICARDA from the cross ILC 72/ILC 215 made in 1980. The F 1 generation of cross FLIP 87-58C/UC15 was advanced in Terbol, in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon (33.49° N, 35.59 E, 890 m above sea level) in the 1994 off-season, June to October. The F 2 seeds obtained from Terbol were planted in a wilt-infected plot at Tel Hadya during the 1994–1995 season, to screen for resistance to Fusarium wilt [caused by Fusarium oxysporum Schlechtend.:Fr. f. sp. ciceris (Padwick)]. Resistant plants were selected and grown in plant progeny rows for advancement to F 3 , at Terbol in the 1995 off-season. Seed from individual plant progenies was harvested separately and planted in a wilt-infected plot at Tel Hadya during the 1995–1996 season. Resistant plants from these progenies were selected and grown in a wilt-infected plot the following season as progeny rows in F 5 . Agronomically uniform progenies with tolerance to Fusarium wilt (rating of 3 on a 1–9 scale where 1 = no disease, 9 = killed by disease) were selected and bulked in F 5 during the 1996–1997 season. In the 1997–1998 season, these bulked lines were evaluated for seed yield and other agronomic traits in preliminary yield trials at Tel Hadya. Agronomically superior and uniform progenies were assigned FLIP 97 (Food Legume Improvement Program Registration of ‘Teji’, a Kabuli Chickpea