@article{icrisat1575, title = {Natural cross-fertilization in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)}, publisher = {Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding}, author = {H A van Rheenen and C L L Gowda and M G Janssen}, pages = {329--332}, year = {1990}, volume = {50}, journal = {Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding }, number = {5}, keywords = {Chickpea, Cicer arietinum, cross fertilization, marker character}, url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/1575/}, abstract = {Three chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) varieties, each with a different recessive marker character, were grown in plots of 12 m2 in a systematic, alternating planting pattern. In the following year, the progenies of all plants were inspected for off-types with regard to the marker characters. Only 0.05\% of off-types was observed. As outcrossing between plants of the same genotype might have occurred but could not be detected, the percentage of off-types underestimates the actual percentage of outcrossing by a factor of 1.5. It is, therefore, estimated at 0.08\%.} }