Chickpea
Chickpea
Scientific name: Cicer arietinum L.
English name: Chickpea, Bengal Gram
Local name: Boot, Chhola, Chana, Boot
Taxonomic Position According to Cronquist (1988)
Kingdom | :Plantae |
Division | :Magnoliophyta |
Class | :Magnoliopsida |
Subclass | :Rosidae |
Order | :Fabales |
Family | :Fabaceae |
Genus | : Cicer |
Species | : C.arietinum |
Botanical Description of Chickpea
Habit: Chickpea is an erect or a spreading annual herb
Root: It has a well developed tap root and an extensive lateral root system which usually bears numerous large indeterminate nodules caused by Rhizobium bacteria
Stem: square stem and numerous branches, the height ranges from 25-90 cm. The whole plant is covered with glandular hairs.
Leaf: pinnately compound, 7-10 cm length, with 9-17 small leaflets which are about 2 cm in length
Flower: The flowers are borne axillary and usually solitary, on peduncles that are 2-4 cm in length
Calyx: Calyx united with five teeth, corolla about 1 cm in length
Fruit: The fruit is a swollen, pubescent pod, oblong up to 3 cm x 2 cm containing one or two seeds
Seed: Non-endospermic, angular with pointed beak and hilum.
Chromosome number: 2n=14, 16, 24, 32, 33 (Fedorov, 1969)
Economic importance
Important pulse crop, green pods are eaten as vegetable. The powders made from the dried seeds are used in confectionery.
Table 1. Chickpea varieties released by Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) and Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA), Bangladesh
Sl. No. | Name of Variety | Developed by | Year of release | Growing season | Average yield |
1 | BARI Chola-1 (Nabin) | Pulse Research Centre, Ishurdi, Pabna | 1987 | Rabi | 2200 |
2 | BARI Chola-2 (Baral) | Pulse Research Centre, Ishurdi, Pabna | 1993 | Rabi | 2800 |
3 | BARI Chola-3
| Pulse Research Centre, Ishurdi, Pabna | 1993 | Rabi | 1900 |
4 | BARI Chola-4
| Pulse Research Centre, Ishurdi, Pabna | 1996 | Rabi | 2700 |
5 | BARI Chola-5
| Pulse Research Centre, Ishurdi, Pabna | 1996 | Rabi | 2800 |
6 | BARI Chola-6
| Pulse Research Centre, Ishurdi, Pabna | 1996 | Rabi | 2600 |
7 | BARI Chola-7
| Pulse Research Centre, Ishurdi, Pabna | 1998 | Rabi | 2800 |
8 | BARI Chola-8 | Pulse Research Centre, Ishurdi, Pabna | 1998 | Rabi | 1500 |
9 | BARI Chola-9
| Pulse Research Centre, Ishurdi, Pabna | 1998 | Rabi | 2300-2700 |
10 | Hyprosola | BINA, Mymensingh | 1981 | Rabi | 1500 |
11 | Binasola-3 | BINA, Mymensingh | 2001 | Rabi | 1600 |
12 | Binasola-4 | BINA, Mymensingh | 2009 | Rabi | 1500 |
13 | Binasola-5 | BINA, Mymensingh | 2009 | Rabi | 1600 |
14 | Binasola-6 | BINA, Mymensingh | 2009 | Rabi | 1700 |
15 | Binasola-7 | BINA, Mymensingh | 2013 | Rabi | 1700 |
16 | Binasola-8 | BINA, Mymensingh | 2013 | Rabi | 1800 |
17 | Binasola-9 | BINA, Mymensingh | 2016 | Rabi | 1700 |
18 | Binasola-10 | BINA, Mymensingh | 2016 | Rabi | 1800 |