%O The Land Institute is gratefully acknowledged for Natural Systems Agriculture Graduate Research Fellowships to T Vincent-Sharp and C Watt. This project was supported by ARIS Project 5348- 21000-020-00 and AID-ICRISAT-USDA Linkage ARIS Project 5348-21000-014-02. %A C Coyne %A T Sharp-Vincent %A M J Cashman %A C A Watt %A W Chen %A F J Muehlbauer %A N Mallikarjuna %I International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics %V 1 %L icrisat2153 %J Jounal of SAT Agricultural Research %N 1 %P 1-2 %D 2005 %T A method for germinating perennial Cicer species