%0 Journal Article
%@ 0975-6906
%A Rheenen, H A van
%A Gowda, C L L
%A Janssen, M G
%D 1990
%F icrisat:1575
%I Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding
%J Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 
%K Chickpea, Cicer arietinum, cross fertilization, marker character
%N 5
%P 329-332
%T Natural cross-fertilization in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/1575/
%V 50
%X 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%.