Vol. 12, Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
Kajal Jankar, SS Mane, ST Ingle, PV Jadhav and MW Marawar

Abstract:
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), one of the key pulse crop, grown extensively in India as a rainfed and irrigated crop. Wilt is a prominent issue in chickpea production among several biotic restraints. Host differential analysis of 40 isolates of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri (Foc) causing chickpea wilt collected from major chickpea growing states of India, was tested on a 10 different cultivars of chickpea, determined that each isolate from different state varied greatly in terms of virulence. Multiple races were discovered to be prominent in every state based on responses to global differentials. The Foc isolates demonstrated substantial heterogeneity on set of 10 host differential cultivars of chickpea namely JG-62, C-104, JG-74, CPS-1, BG-212, WR-315, Annegiri, Chafa, L-550, and K-850. One of the most practical and affordable solution to wilt issue, is the establish new sources of resistant cultivars. To test several germplasm lines for wilt, the current experiment was carried out in rabi 2021–2022.