eprintid: 6178
rev_number: 13
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datestamp: 2012-10-10 10:57:42
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type: monograph
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@cgiar.org
creators_name: ICRISAT, -
icrisatcreators_name: ICRISAT, -
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: Bringing hope to marginal environments: chickpea improvement at ICRISAT
ispublished: pub
subjects: s1.1
subjects: s2.13
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: documentation
keywords: King Baudouin Award
note: The core credit for more than two decades of chickpea improvement goes to the many dedicated
scientists cited in the publications of Annex II. Rodomiro Ortiz, C.L.L. Gowda, and Jagdish Kumar
assembled the facts and figures behind the story, based on source information derived from those
publications and additional contributions from U.K. Deb, C.L.L. Gowda, Jagdish Kumar, N. Kameswara
Rao, V. Mahalakshmi, Nalini Mallikarjuna, S. Pande, G.V. Ranga Rao, O.P. Rupela, N.P. Saxena,
K.K. Sharma, S.D. Singh, H.D. Upahdhyaya, P. Parthasarathy Rao, and James G. Ryan. Mark Winslow
synthesized the contributions for the final writeup. Savitri Mohapatra and A. Giridhar Rao carried out
editing and proofreading. S Srinivas and the staff of the ICRISAT Library assisted in the bibliographic
search. T. R. Kapoor supervised the pre-press, layout/design, and printing operations.
abstract: The heartland of the CGIAR’s renewed vision is to
reduce poverty and food insecurity, particularly in
the marginal environments that have largely been
bypassed by previous research. The constraints of
harsh environments and limited farm resources
of the poor in many ways present a greater
challenge than even the heroic achievements of
the Green Revolution. But it is the most direct
path to poverty reduction.
The accomplishments of ICRISAT’s
partnership-based chickpea research-fordevelopment
thrust over the past quarter
century constitute a strong validation of this
bold new direction. Over 100 improved varieties
have been released, including a new type of
adaptation that has enabled the crop to extend
its range far south of its historical zone; adding a
second crop – where previously only one crop
per year was grown – through varieties that
mature on residual soil moisture alone;
resistance to the fusarium wilt disease;
integrated control options for botrytis gray mold
disease; enhanced root mass for drought
resistance; an understanding of resistance
mechanisms against an intractable pest, the
helicoverpa pod borer insect; and molecular
marker and gene transformation techniques to
significantly accelerate breeding progress in the
coming years. All these scientific and
development accomplishments have been
underpinned by intensive partnerships that
have built national capacities that will enhance
payoffs for decades to come.
Chickpea is by far the most important
leguminous food grain, or pulse, in the diets of
the peoples of South Asia. This is the world’s
most concentrated pocket of poverty, home to
over half a billion desperately poor.....
date: 2002
date_type: submitted
publisher: International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
place_of_pub: Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh India
pages: 56
institution: International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
isbn: 9290664223
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related_url_type: pub
citation:   ICRISAT, -  (2002) Bringing hope to marginal environments: chickpea improvement at ICRISAT.  Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh India.     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/6178/1/Bringing_hopetomarginal.pdf