Chikpea Descriptors 4.1 Vegetative NOT AVAILABLE 4.1.1 Plant pigmentation NOT AVAILABLE 1-No anthocyanin, stems and leaves pale green 3-No anthocyanin, stems and leaves green 5-Low anthocyanin, stems and leaves partly light purple 7-High anthocyanin, stems and leaves predominantly purple 9-Highly purple 4.1.2 Plant hairiness Hairs (including glandular ones) on stems, leaves and pods 3-Lightly pubescent 5-Pubescent 7-Densely pubescent 4.1.3 Leaf type NOT AVAILABLE 1-Normal (uni-imparipinnate) 2-Simple (leaf lamina not differentiated) 3-Multipinnate (leaf lamina differentiated more than once) 4.1.4 Number of leaflets per leaf NOT AVAILABLE 1-5-7 2-7-9 3-9-11 4-11-13 5->13 4.2 Inflorescence and Fruit NOT AVAILABLE 4.2.1 Days to 50% flowering From sowing (or first rain sufficient for germination under rainfed conditions) to the stage when 50% of plants have begun to flower 4.2.2 Days to maturity From sowing (or first rain sufficient for germination under rainfed conditions) to the stage when over 90% of pods have matured and turned yellow 4.2.3 Number of seeds per pod Mean of 10 pods each from 5 representative plants. At maturity 4.2.4 Flower colour In most cases pink and blue flowers have veins of a darker shade in the flag, while the tip of the keel is also darker. The classes are ranges rather than only the shades of the reference colours. 1-Blue (violet-blue group 97B) 2-Light blue (violet-blue group 97C) 3-Dark pink (red-purple group 64D) 4-Pink (red-purple group 63 D) 5-Light pink (red-purple group 69C) 6-White (white group 155D) 7-White-pink striped (white group 155D, red-purple group 63D) 4.2.5 Number of flowers and pods per peduncle NOT AVAILABLE 1-Single pod per peduncle 2-Twin pods - at least 10% of the peduncles bear two pods 4.2.6 Pod length [mm] NOT AVAILABLE 3-Short (<15 mm) 5-Medium (15-20 mm) 7-Long (>20 mm) 4.2.7 Pod dehiscence NOT AVAILABLE 1-<10% dehiscence 2->10% dehiscence 4.2.8 Number of pods per plant Mean of 5 representative plants 4.3 Seed NOT AVAILABLE 4.3.1 Seed shape NOT AVAILABLE 1-Angular, rams head (most desi cultivars) 2-Irregular rounded, owls head (most kabuli cultivars) 3-Pea-shaped, smooth round 4.3.2 Testa texture NOT AVAILABLE 3-Rough 5-Smooth 7-Tuberculated 4.3.3 Seed colour Observed from mature seeds stored not longer than 5 months. 1-Black (black group 202A, 202B; brown group 200A) 10-Beige (greyed-orange group 165D) 11-Yellow (greyed-orange group 164B) 12-Light yellow (greyed-orange group 164C) 13-Yellow brown (greyed-orange group 165C) 14-Orange yellow (greyed-orange group 168D) 15-Orange (greyed-orange group 168C) 16-Yellow beige (orange-white group 159C) 17-Ivory white (orange-white group 159C) 18-Green (greyed-green group 191A; grey group 201A; greyed-orange group 166B) 19-Multipinnate (greyed-green group 193B) 2-Brown (greyed-orange group 177B) 20-Variegated 21-Black brown mosaic (black group 202A; greyed-orange group 177E) 3-Light brown (greyed-orange group 177C) 4-Dark brown (greyed-orange group 177 A) 5-Reddish brown (greyed-orange group 166C) 6-Greyish brown (brown group 200D) 7-Salmon brown (greyed-orange group 165C) 8-Grey (greyed-green group 196A) 9-Brown beige (greyed-orange group 173D) 4.3.4 Absence/presence of minute black dots NOT AVAILABLE 1-0 Absent 2-+ Present 4.3.5 100-Seed weight [g] Measured at 10% (air-dry) moisture content 6.1 Vegetative NOT AVAILABLE 6.1.1 Growth habit Angle of primary branches, recorded at mid-pod filling stage. 1-Erect (0-15?from vertical) 2-Semi-erect (16-25?from vertical) 3-Semi-spreading (26-60?from vertical) 4-Spreading (61-80?from vertical) 5-Prostrate (branches flat on the ground) 6.1.2 Leaflet size [mm] Size of basal pair of leaflets. Average of 10 fully grown representative leaves at the fifth leaf from the top 1-Small (<10 mm long, <4 mm wide) 2-Medium (10-15 mm long, 4-12 mm wide) 3-Large (>15 mm long, >12 mm wide) 6.1.3 Leaf area [mm] Average leaf area of 5 representative leaves (1 from each of the 5 plants) 1-Small (< 13 cm2) 2-Medium (13-16 cm2) 3-Large (>16 cm2) 6.1.4 Number of branches NOT AVAILABLE 6.1.5 Plant canopy height [cm] Mean canopy height of 5 representative plants. At the end of flowering. 6.1.6 Plant canopy width [cm] Average spread of 5 representative plants. At the end of flowering measured from the soil surface 6.1.4.1 Basal primary NOT AVAILABLE 6.1.4.2 Basal secondary NOT AVAILABLE 6.1.4.3 Apical primary NOT AVAILABLE 6.1.4.4 Apical secondary NOT AVAILABLE 6.1.4.5 Tertiary NOT AVAILABLE 6.2 Inflorescence and Fruit NOT AVAILABLE 6.2.1 Flower duration Days between 50% flowering and the end of flowering in 50% of the plants 6.2.2 Yield NOT AVAILABLE 6.2.2.1 Biological yield [kg ha] Total weight of hand-pulled plants at harvest (maturity) 6.2.2.2 Grain yield [kg ha] NOT AVAILABLE 6.3 Seed NOT AVAILABLE 6.3.1 Quality characteristics NOT AVAILABLE 6.3.1.1 Protein content [%DW] Whole seed crude protein using the dyebinding method or automatic protein analyser 6.3.1.2 Dhal milling [%] After milling (dehusked split peas) 6.3.1.3 Cookability of dhal Increase in volume (v/v) after soaking for 24 h and boiling for 25 min 6.3.1.4 Cookability of dry seeds Increase in volume (v/v) after soaking for 24 h and beiling for 25 min or if possible, run a regular test and determine the actual cooking time for dry seed without soaking 7.1 Reactions to low Temperature NOT AVAILABLE 7.1.1 Seedling emergence NOT AVAILABLE 7.1.2 Susceptibility to cold (whole plant) NOT AVAILABLE 7.1.3 Frost damage NOT AVAILABLE 7.2 Reactions to high temperature (Heat) 7.3 Reactions to Aluminium toxicity NOT AVAILABLE 7.4 Reaction to low Iron NOT AVAILABLE 7.5 Reaction to drought NOT AVAILABLE 7.6 Reaction to low seedbed moisture conditions NOT AVAILABLE 7.7 Reaction to Alkaline soils NOT AVAILABLE 7.8 Soils Specify here any additional information 8.1 Foliar diseases NOT AVAILABLE 8.1.1 Alternaria blight Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Kiessler 8.1.2 Ascochyta blight Ascochyta rabiei (Pass.) Labr. 8.1.3 Grey mould Botrytis cinerea Pers. ex Fr. 8.1.4 Fusarium wilt Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht. 8.1.5 Phytophthora blight Phytovhthora mesasperma Drechs. 8.1.6 Rust Uromyces ciceris-arietini (Grogn.) Jacz & Bever 8.2 Seed and seedling diseases NOT AVAILABLE 8.2.1 Damping off Pythium ultimum Trow. 8.2.2 Stemphylium blight Stemphyliutn sarciniforme (Cav.) Wilts. 8.2.3 Seedling rot Xanthomonas cassiae Kulkarni et al. 8.3 Root and Stem rot NOT AVAILABLE 8.3.1 Root rot Fusarium solani (Mart.) Sacc. 8.3.2 Foot rot Operculella padwickii Kheswalla 8.3.3 Dry root rot Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler 8.3.4 Stem rot Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary 8.3.5 Collar rot Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc. 8.4 Viral and Mycoplasma diseases NOT AVAILABLE 8.4.1 Chickpea stunt Bean (pea) leafroll virus (Luteovirus^ 8.5 Root, Foliage and Stem feeding insects NOT AVAILABLE 8.5.1 Nodule damaging flies Metopina ciceri Disney 8.5.2 Cutworm Agrotis ipsilon Hufnagel. etc. 8.5.3 Leaf miner Liriomyza cicerina (Rondani) 8.5.4 Aphids Aphis craccivora (Koch) 8.6 Stem, Flower and Pod feeding insects NOT AVAILABLE 8.6.1 Pod borer Helkoverpg armisera (Hiibner) 8.7 storage insects NOT AVAILABLE 8.7.1 Storage bruchid beetle Callosobruchus chinensis (L.) 8.8 Nematodes NOT AVAILABLE 8.8.1 Rootknot nematode Meloidozyne incognita 8.8.2 Root lesion nematode Pratylenchus thornei 8.8.3 Cyst nematode Heterodera ciceri Vovlas, Greco and Di Vito 8.9 Notes Specify here any additional information 9.1 Protein characterization NOT AVAILABLE 9.2 Allozyme composition NOT AVAILABLE 9.3 DNA Fingerprinting (RFLP/RAPD)