Fig 1.
Representation of chickpea germplasm from 17 countries in world map (A) and 18 states (B) in Indian map.
Colour intensity represents the number of accessions from the geographical location. Blue and red highlighted marks are the experimental locations in India.
Fig 2.
Field view of experimental plot and promising accessions.
(A) Partial view of experimental plot depicting the disease severity and uniform spread of the pathogen (A. rabiei) at PAU, Ludhiana, during winter, 2018–19. Typical ascochyta blight disease identification symptoms which appear on leaf (B), stem (C) and pod (D) are highlighted in the photographs. Field photographs of some of the promising accessions viz. IC275447 (E), EC267301 (F), IC220109 (G), IC248147 (H) and IC117744 (I).
Table 1.
Classification of chickpea germplasm based on their origin and disease severity frequency.
Table 2.
Disease reaction (0–9 score) to Ascochyta rabiei pathogen and basic passport information of promising chickpea germplasm accessions identified from screening of 1,705 chickpea germplasm from 2014–15 to 2018–19.
Fig 3.
Classification of chickpea germplasm based on their response to ascochyta blight disease.
In this graphical representation 1,230 accessions are included from screening experiment of three seasons (2014–15 to 2016–17) at Ludhiana (A) and Dhaulakuan (B) locations.
Table 3.
Summary table of Wilcoxon Signed Rank test on paired set of accessions for Dhaulakuan and Ludhiana disease screening locations.