Associations amongFusariumwilt resistance, flower colour and number of flowers per fruiting node in chickpeas (Cicer arietinumL.)

Abstract

Corolla colour in chickpea (Cicer arietinumL.) 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 (Sheldrake, Saxena & Krishnamurthy, 1978)