Vol. 12, Issue 9 (2023)

One of the economically significant vascular root diseases affecting chickpea is fusarium wilt. To find fusarium wilt resistant sources in wilt sick plot in naturally infected field, 200 chickpea germplasm samples were evaluated. In the Rabi 2021-22 growing season, the genotypes were cultivated using an augmented design without replications, with a highly susceptible differential check (JG-62) replicated as a disease appearance indicator. The genotypes were scored using the ICRISAT rating scale, and the disease occurrences were evaluated five times at various growth stages. The Fusarium wilt incidences in desi type of chickpea showed that two lines were resistant and fifteen exhibited a moderately resistant reaction. This suggests that the source of the desi type chickpea's diversity is resistant to wilt and other serious chickpea illnesses. It is challenging to distinguish delayed wilting type of lines in chickpea since early wilting type accession lines predominate. As a result, the promising genotypes suggest that it is most suitable for use in breeding and can be applied directly in places that are badly impacted by wilt as well as transferred to a commercial cultivar based on resistance type.