Chickpea references

Publications on Chickpea

Abbo S, Redden RJ, Yadav SS. 2007. Utilization of wild relatives. In: Yadav SS, Redden R, Chen W, Sharma B, editors. Chickpea Breeding & Management. CABI, Wallingford, UK. pp 338-354.

Ahmad, F., Gaur, PM, and Croser J. 2005. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). In: Singh RJ, Jauhar PP, editors. Genetic Resources, chromosome engineering, and crop improvement - Grain Legumes Vol. 1. CRC Press, USA. pp 187-217.

AOSA (Association of Official Seed Analysts) 2005.  in: Rules for Testing Seeds (Capashew Ed.), 4-0, 4-11. Las Cruces, NM. pp 113.

Bioversity International, ICARDA, ICRISAT, IARI. 2010. Key access and utilization descriptors for chickpea genetic resources. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy; International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Syria; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, India; Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India. Available here.

Bratislava. 1999. Methodics examinations seed and plant, of State variety trials. Slovak Republic.

Chakrabarty SK, Anitha K, Girish AG, Sarath BB, Prasada RRDVJ, Varaprasad KS, Khetarpal RK, Thakur RP. 2005. Germplasm Exchange and Quarantine of ICRISAT Mandate Crops. Information Bulletin No. 69. Rajendranagar 500 030, Andhra Pradesh, India: National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources; and Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. 80 pp. ISBN 92-9066-481-9.

Chickpea germplasm [online] collection database. Available from URL: http://www.icrisat.org/crop-chickpea.htm Date accessed: 30 January 2010.

Choumane W, Baum M. 2000. The use of RAPD markers for characterization of annual species of the genus Cicer. Annals of Agricultural Science (Cairo) 2:809–820.

Coyne CJ, Sharp-Vincent T, Cashman MJ, Watt CA, Chen W, Muehlbauer FJ, Mallikarjuna N. 2005. A method for germinating perennial Cicer species. SAT ejournal Vol 1, Issue 1. Available from: http://www.icrisat.org/Journal/cropimprovement/v1i1/icpn12/v1i1amethod.pdf. Date accessed: 29 August 2008.

FAO/IPGRI. 1994. Genebank standards. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome and International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome. Available in English (0.2MB), Spanish, French, and Arabic .

FAO/IPGRI. 2001. Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors. FAO and IPGRI, Rome, Italy. Available in English, French and Spanish.

GIMS (Genebank Information Management System) – a standalone facility of ICRISAT Genebank. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, A.P. 502 324, India. In: Manual of Genebank Operations and Procedures - Technical Manual no. 6. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India: ISBN 92-9066-421-5.

Global Crop Diversity Trust. 2008. Global strategy for the ex situ conservation of chickpea (Cicer L.) [online]. Available from: http://www.croptrust.org/documents/web/CicerStrategy_FINAL_2Dec08.pdf Date accessed: 25 May 2009.

Hanson J. 1985. Procedures for handling seeds in genebanks. Practical manuals for genebanks no. 1. International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, Rome. Available from:  http://www.bioversityinternational.org/index.php?id=19&user_bioversitypublications_pi1[showUid]=2235.

Hopf M. 1969. Plant remains and early farming in Jericho. In: Ucko P, Dimbleby GW, editors. The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals. London: Duckworth. pp 355-599.

IBPGR, ICRISAT, ICARDA. 1993. Descriptors for Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, Rome, Italy; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, India and International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria. ISBN 92-9043-137-7. Available here (1 MB)

ICRISAT Chickpea collection. SINGER [online]. Available from: http://www.singer.cgiar.org/index.jsp?page=showkeycount&search=coc=co38 Date accessed: 30 January 2010.

ICRISAT Chickpea Germplasm collection Reports. Genetic Resources Unit, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, A.P. 502 324, India. Progress Reports – 20 no’s. GRU - Progress Reports – 20 no’s

ISTA. 1993. International rules for seed testing. International Seed Testing Association. Bassersdorf, Switzerland. Seed Science and Technology 21 (Supplement): 1-288.

ISTA. 2003. International rules for seed testing. International Seed Testing Association. Bassersdorf, Switzerland.

ISTA. 2005. International rules for seed testing. International Seed Testing Association. Bassersdorf, Switzerland.

Jambunathan R, Singh U, Subramanian V. 1981. Grain quality of sorghum, pearl millet, pigeonpea and chickpea. In: Proceedings of a workshop held at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru-502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Ladizinsky G, Adler A. 1976. Genetic relationships among the annual species of Cicer L. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 48:197-204.

Ladinsky G, Adler A. 1976. The origin of chickpea Cicer arietinum L. Euphytica 25(1):211–217.

Nguyen TT, Taylor PWJ, Redden RJ, Ford R. 2004. Genetic diversity estimates in Cicer using AFLP analyses. Plant Breeding 123:173-179.

Nordgen. 2008. Agreement between (depositor) and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food concerning the deposit of seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. [online] The Svalbard Gloal Seed Vault, The Nordic Genetic Resource Centre, ALNARP. Available from: http://www.nordgen.org/sgsv/scope/sgsv/files/SGSV_Deposit_Agreement.pdf.

Pundir RPS, Reddy KN, Mengesha MH. 1988. ICRISAT Chickpea Germplasm Catalog: Evaluation and Analysis. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, India.
ISBN 92-9066-154-2.

Purseglove JW. 1968. Cicer arietinum L. In: Tropical Crops. Dicotyledons. Longman Group Limited. London. Pp. 246-250.

Rao NK, Hanson J, Dulloo ME, Ghosh K, Nowel D and Larinde M. 2006. Manual of seed handling in genebanks. Handbooks for Genebanks No. 8. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy. Available in English (1.5MB), Spanish (1.4MB) and French (1.9MB).

Redden RJ, Berger JD. 2007. History and origin of Chickpea. In: Yadav SS, Redden R, Chen W, Sharma B, editors. Chickpea Breeding & Management. CABI, Wallingford, UK. Pp 1-13.

Redden B, Furman BJ, Upadhyaya HD, Pundir RPS, Gowda CLL, Coyne C, Enneking D. 2007. Biodiversity Management in Chickpea. In: Yadav SS, Redden R, Chen W, Sharma B, editors. Chickpea Breeding & Management. CABI, Wallingford, UK. Pp 355-368.

Saxena MC, Singh KB, editors. 1987. The Chickpea. ICARDA. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria. CAB International, UK. 409 pages.
ISBN: 0851985718

Singh KB, Pundir RPS, Robertson LD, van Rheene HA, Singh U, Kelley TJ, Rao PP, Johansen C, Saxena NP. 1997. Chickpea. In: Fuccillo D, Sears L, Stapleton P, editors. Biodiversity in Trust. Cambridge University Press. pp. 100-113.

Singh U, Subrahmanyam N, Kumar J. 1990. Cooking quality and nutritional attributes of some newly developed cultivars of chickpea (Cicer arietinum). Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 55:37- 46.

Stoyanova SD. 1992. Drying chickpea seeds for long-term preservation in genebanks. PGR- Newsletter 90: 19-27.

Stoyanova SD. 2001. Ex situ conservation in the Bulgarian genebank. I. Effect of storage. PGR-Newsletter 128: 68-76.

Tayyar R, Federici CV, Waines GJ. 1996. Natural outcrossing in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Crop Science 36:203–205.

Upadhyaya HD, Gowda CLL, Sastry DVSSR. 2008. Management of germplasm collections and enhancing their use by mini core and molecular approaches. APEC-ATCWG Workshop. Capacity building for risk management systems on genetic resources, pp. 35-70.  http://www.tari.gov.tw/taric/uploads/publication_no135_08.pdf

Upadhyaya HD, Gowda CLL, Sastry DVSSR. 2008. Plant genetic resources management: collection, characterization, conservation and utilization. Journal of SAT Agricultural Research 6. http://www.icrisat.org/Journal/Volume6/ChickPea_PigeonPea/HD_Upadhyaya.pdf.

Upadhyaya HD, Laxmipathi Gowda CL. 2009. Managing and Enhancing the Use of Germplasm – Strategies and Methodologies. Technical Manual no. 10. Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. 236 pp.

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Wellving AHA. 1984. Grain legumes. Seed Production Handbook of Zambia. Department of Agriculture. Lusaka. SIDA. pp. 226–254.

Forage grasses references

Publications on Forage grasses 

Albrechtsen SE. 2006. Testing Methods for Seed-Transmitted Viruses: Principles and Protocols. CABI Publishing, Cambridge, USA. pp. 268.

Bogdan AV. 1977. Tropical Pasture and Fodder Plants, Longman, London.

Butler JE. 1985. Germination of Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris). Seed Science and Technology 13:583-591.

Chin HF, Hanson J. 1999. Seed storage. In: Loch DS, Ferguson J, editors. Forage Seed Production Vol. II Tropical and Subtropical Species. CABI, Wallingford, UK. pp. 303-315.

Clayton WD. 1983. Tropical grasses. In: McIvor JG, Bray RA, editors. Genetic resources of forage plants. CSIRO, Australia. pp. 39-46.

Cook BG, Pengelly BC, Brown SD, Donnelly JL, Eagles DA, Franco MA, Hanson J, Mullen BF, Partridge IJ, Peters M, Schultze-Kraft R. 2005. Tropical Forages: an interactive selection tool. (www.tropicalforgaes.info) CSIRO, DPI&F(Qld), CIAT and ILRI, Brisbane, Australia.

Fairey DT, Hampton JG, editors. 1997. Forage Seed Production, Volume 1: Temperate species. CABI publishing. 416pp.

FAO/IPGRI. 1994. Genebank standards. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome and International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome. Available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.

Hacker B, Hanson J. 1999. Crop growth and development: reproduction. In: Loch DS, Ferguson J, editors. Forage Seed Production Vol II Tropical and Subtropical Species. CABI, Wallingford, UK. pp. 93-111.

Harty RL, Hopkinson JM, English BH, Alder J. 1983. Germination, dormancy and longevity in stored seeds of Panicum maximum. Seed Science and Technology 11:341-351.

Hayward MD, McAdam NJ. 1977. Isozyme polymorphism as a measure of distinctiveness and stability in cultivars of Lolium perenne. Zeitschrift für Pflanzenzüchtung 79:59-68.

Humphreys LR, Riveros F. 1986. Tropical Pasture Seed Production. FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper 8, FAO, Rome, Italy. 203pp.

IBPGR, CEC. 1985. Forage Grass Descriptors. International Board for Plant Genetic Resources Secretariat, Rome, Italy; Commission of European Communities Secretariat, Brussels. Available from: www2.bioversityinternational.org/publications/Web_version/420/. Date accessed: 16 Jan 2011. www.seedtest.org/.

ISTA. 2008. International Rules for Seed Testing. International Seed Testing Association. ISTA secretariat, CH-Switzerland. Available from:

Knight R. 1983. Mediterranean and temperate grasses. In: McIvor JG, Bray RA, editors. Genetic resources of forage plants. CSIRO, Australia. pp. 48-61.

Loch DS, Ferguson JE, editors. 1999. Forage Seed Production, Volume 2: Tropical and subtropical species. CABI publishing, UK.

Loch DS, Harding WAT, Harvey GL. 1988. Cone threshing of chaffy grass seeds to improve handling characteristics. Queensland Journal of Agricultural and Animal Sciences 45:205-212.

Maas BL, Hanson J, Robertson LD, Kerridge PC, Moneim AE. 1997. Forages. In: Fuccillo D, Sears L, Stapleton P, editors. Biodiversity in Trust. Cambridge University Press. pp. 322-348.

Maass BL, Escobar AO. 1996. Managing tropical forages field genebanks at CIAT. Paper presented at the IPGRI/SGRP/CIAT/FAO Consultation meeting on Management of Field and In Vitro Genebanks at CIAT, 15-20 January 1996. Cali, Colombia.

McIvor JG, Bray RA, editors. 1983. Genetic Resources of Forage Plants. CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia.

Nordgen. 2008. Agreement between (depositor) and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food concerning the deposit of seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. [online] The Svalbard Gloal Seed Vault, The Nordic Genetic Resource Centre, Alnarp, Sweden. Available from: http://www.nordgen.org/sgsv/scope/sgsv/files/SGSV_Deposit_Agreement.pdf. Date accessed: 23 March 2010. http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0020/24761/consul_rpt_clonal.doc. Date accessed: 16 Jan 2011. English (1.5 MB),  Spanish (1.4 MB) and French (1.9 MB).

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Rao NK, Hanson J, Dulloo ME, Ghosh K, Nowel D, Larinde M. 2006. Manual of seed handling in genebanks. Handbooks for Genebanks No. 8. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy. Available in 

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Van de Wouw M, Hanson J, Nokoe S. 1999. Observation strategies for morphological characterisation of forages. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 46:63-71.

Whiteman PC, Mendra K. 1982. Effects of storage and seed treatments on germination of Brachiaria decumbens. Seed Science and Technology 10:233-242.

Forage legumes references

Publications on Forage legumes

Akinola JO, Afolayan RA, Olorunju SAS. 1991. Effects of storage, testa colour and scarification method on seed germination of Desmodium velutinum (Willd.) DC. Seed Science and Technology 19:159-166.

Albrechtsen SE. 2006. Testing Methods for Seed-Transmitted Viruses: Principles and Protocols. CABI Publishing, Cambridge, USA. pp. 268.

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Bass LN. 1984. Storage of seeds of tropical legumes. Seed Science and Technology 12:395-402.

Bogdan AV. 1977. Tropical Pasture and Fodder Plants, Longman, London, UK.

Cabrales R, Bernal J. 1983. Effect of different systems of seed treatment, packing, and storage on vigor and germination of five tropical forage legumes. XIVth International Grasslands Congress. pp. 263-265.

Chekalin NM, Samorodov VN. 1975. Rate of growth of pollen tubes in mutant self pollinating lines of Lathyrus sativus. Sel Semenovod Kiev 29:94-97.

Chekalin NM, Zelenskaia LA. 1973. Inheritance of male sterility in Lathyrus sativus with crossing of sterile plants with fertile pollenizer lines. Sel Semenovod Kiev 23:51-54.

Chekalin NM. 1972. [The evaluation of the degree of the selectivity of fertilization in peavine]. Sel'Skokhozyaistvennaya Biologiya 7 (1):103-107.

Chekalin NM. 1973. Selectivity of fertilization in the grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.). Soviet Genetics 9 (12):1501-1507.

Chekalin NM. 1975. Character of displaying selective fertilization in self fertilized lines and hybrids of Lathyrus sativus. Sel Semenovod Kiev 30:40-44.

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Godt MJW, Hamrick JL. 1993. Patterns and levels of pollen mediated gene flow in Lathyrus latifolius. Evolution 47 (1):98-110.

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Hacker B, Hanson J. 1999. Crop growth and development: reproduction. In: Loch DS, Ferguson J, editors. Forage Seed Production vol II Tropical and Subtropical Species. CABI International, Cambridge, UK. pp. 93-111.

Hawtin GC, Omar M. 1980. Estimation of outcrossing between isolation plots of faba beans. FABIS Newsletter 2:28-29.

Humphreys LR, Riveros F. 1986. Tropical Pasture Seed Production. FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper 8, FAO, Rome, Italy. 203pp.

IBPGR, CEC, 1984. Forage Legume Descriptors. International Board for Plant Genetic Resources Secretariat, Rome, Italy: Commission of European Communities Secretariat, Brussels. Available from:

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Loch DS, Ferguson JE, editors. 1999. Forage Seed Production, Volume 2: Tropical and subtropical species. CABI publishing.

Maas BL, Hanson J, Robertson LD, Kerridge PC, Moneim AE. 1997. Forages. In: Fuccillo D, Sears L, Stapleton P, editors. Biodiversity in Trust. Cambridge University Press. pp. 322-348.

McIvor JG, Bray RA, editors. 1983 Genetic Resources of Forage Plants. CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia.

Nan ZB, Hanson J, Yeshi MW. 1998. Effects of sulphuric acid and hot water treatments on seed borne fungi and germination of Stylosanthes hamata, S. guianensis and S. scabra. Seed Science and Technology 26:33-43.

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NordGen. 2008. Agreement between (depositor) and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food concerning the deposit of seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. [online] The Svalbard Gloal Seed Vault, The Nordic Genetic Resource Centre, Alnarp, Sweden. Available from: 

Penteado MI de O, Sáenz de Mira LE, Pérez de la Vega M. 1996. Genetic resources of Centrosema spp.: genetic changes associated to the handling of an active collection. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 43: 85 90.

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Souza FHD, Marcos-Filho J. 1993. Physiological characteristics associated with water imbibition by Calopogonium mucunoides Desv. seeds. Seed Science and Technology 21:561-572.

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Wang YR, Hanson J. 2008. The impact of temperature on seed germination in diverse accessions of 4 wild Vigna species. Proceedings of the XXI International Grasslands Congress, Multifunctional Grasslands in a Changing World. Hohhot, China, June 2008, p. 557.

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Maize references

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