@article{icrisat11626,
           month = {August},
           title = {Physio-morphological and molecular analysis for salt tolerance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum)},
       publisher = {Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences},
            year = {2020},
          author = {N Kumar and C Bharadwaj and A Soni and S Sachdeva and M C Yadav and M Pal and K R Soren and M C Meena and M Roorkiwal and R K Varshney and M Rana},
           pages = {132--136},
          volume = {90},
            note = {The author acknowledges ICAR-IARI for field and
lab work and ICAR funded project Incentivizing Research
in Agriculture (Chickpea Component) and DBT?AISRF
Grand challenge programme.},
         journal = {Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences},
          number = {4},
        keywords = {Chickpea, Hydroponics, Salinity, Seedling Screening},
             url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/11626/},
        abstract = {After drought salinity is the major abiotic stress that severely affects agricultural productivity globally. Chickpea(Cicer arietinum L.) is the important grain legume which suffers approximately 8-10\% of total global yield loss
due to salinity. Screening for salt stress is difficult and traits that correlate salinity tolerance are least understood. The present study was carried out at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi 2017-18, deals with the important morphological and physiological traits like RWC (Relative water content), EL (Electrolyte Leakage), Na/K (sodium and potassium ratio)
to characterize the salt tolerant genotypes under hydroponic condition which is a quick and easy method to screen large number of chickpea genotypes at initial stage under salt stress condition. Genotypes showing high RWC, low
EL and Na/K ratio were tolerant like ICCV 10, JG 11, JG 62 and CSG-8962 whereas genotypes like ICC4958 and
Pusa362 fall under moderately tolerant genotypes and DCP 93-3, Pusa 256, Phule G5 and SBD 377 were classified
as susceptible genotypes. This study also attempts to understand the candidate genes responsible for salt-stress related pathways in chickpea genotypes based on sequence similarity approach exploiting known salt-stress responsive genes from model crops or other crop species.}
}