Cold Stress Injury during the Pod-Filling Phase in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.): Effects on Quantitative and Qualitative Components of Seeds

Kaur, G and Kumar, S and Nayyar, H and Upadhyaya, H D (2008) Cold Stress Injury during the Pod-Filling Phase in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.): Effects on Quantitative and Qualitative Components of Seeds. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 194 (6). pp. 457-464. ISSN 1439-037x

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Abstract

Chilling stress (<10 °C) is detrimental for chickpea, especially at the reproductive phase and leads to abortion of flowers, pods and impaired seed filling, causing severe reduction in yield. The information on the effects of low temperature during different pod-filling stages on quality and quantity of developing seeds is lacking in chickpea and hence this study. In this study, chickpea plants growing under warm conditions of the glasshouse were subjected to cold conditions of the field at the two stages, (a) early pod-filling and (b) late pod-filling, and subsequently analysed for stress injury in terms of electrolyte leakage (EL), 2,3,5-triphenyl tetrazolium chloride reduction, relative leaf water content and total chlorophyll content in the leaves of control and cold-stressed plants. Cold stress caused elevation of EL but reduced all the other parameters. Sucrose content decreased significantly in the leaves of cold-stressed plants. The differences between the effects of stress at two stages on the total plant dry weight were small and insignificant. The seed growth rate, seed fill duration, seed number, and average seed weight and size decreased greatly in the plants cold-stressed at the late pod-filling stage than those stressed at the early pod-filling stage. Greater reduction was observed in starch, proteins, soluble sugars, fat, crude fibre and storage protein fractions in the seeds of the plants cold-stressed at the late pod-filling stage. This coincided with a larger decrease in sucrose content, the activities of sucrose synthase, invertase and starch synthase observed at this stage. The germination and growth potential were, however, inhibited to a greater extent in seeds of plants stressed at the early pod-filling stage.

Item Type:	Article
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Uncontrolled Keywords:	cold stress; chickpea; pod-filling; seed yield; seed quality
Subjects:	Mandate crops > Chickpea
Depositing User:	Mr Sanat Kumar Behera
Date Deposited:	18 Nov 2011 09:01
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2011 09:01
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/4104
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-037X.2008.00336.x
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