Growth, yield and water use efficiency of chickpea (Cicer arietinum): response to biochar and phosphorus fertilizer application

Effect of Organic, Inorganic and Bio-fertilization on Growth, Yield and Quality Traits of Some Chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) Varieties

“…In this concern, Kumar et al (2014) found that the application of different biofertilizers like Rhizobium and PSB as well as mycorrhiza fungi exhibited positive influence on seed and stover yields of chickpea. Moreover, other researchers found positive response of chickpea productivity to the application of some macronutrients, i.e., N (Yagmur &Kaydan, 2011 andNamvar et al, 2013), P (Dutta &Bandyopadhyay, 2009 andLusiba et al, 2018) and K (Ahmed et al, 2015), micronutrients, i.e., Fe (Janmohammadi et al, 2012) and B (Alam et al, 2017) and some beneficial bacteria, i.e., NFB (Rokhzadi &Toashih, 2011), PSB (Kumar et al, 2014) as well as some fungu , i.e., yeast (Ahmed et al, 2010) and Trichoderma (Mohammadi et al, 2011).…”

Effectiveness of Plant Beneficial Microbes: Overview of the Methodological Approaches for the Assessment of Root Colonization and Persistence

“…Therefore, a well-organized experimental plan to investigate microbial populations from plant roots and soil is necessary. Usually, in field experiments, the simplest approach used to overcome spatial variables is a completely randomized design with replicates since the treatments are assigned completely at random, creating homogeneous treatment groups (Fiorentino et al, 2018;Lusiba et al, 2018).…”

Effect of planting date and genotype on intercepted radiation and radiation use efficiency in chickpea crop (Cicer arietinum L.)

“…Whilst fertilizer management (Naderi et al, 2021), irrigation application (Seval et al, 2020) and crop protection methods (Khaliq et al, 2020;Mohammed et al, 2020) have been reported extensively in literature, strategies to optimize the interception of radiation and its utilization in chickpea has not been fully reported to improve crop productivity of the crop (Ogola, 2015). Traditionally, chickpea yield response from radiation interception and its use efficiency has been reported by several workers (Fotiadis et al, 2017;Lusiba et al, 2018;Ogola, 2015), but there are limited studies that integrate the effect of planting date and genotype on the ecophysiological evaluation of aboveground biomass and grain yield production of chickpea (Lake & Sadras, 2017).…”

“…Lake and Sadras (2017) concluded that the relationship at the biomass level properly captures and synthesizes the optimisation of underlying processes occurring during growth of a chickpea plant. It is clear from the solar driven-growth that any management practice that increases daily incident radiation, fraction of incident radiation intercepted, radiation use efficiency, and the duration of radiation interception will increase crop yield (Lusiba et al, 2018). Although (ε) is considered to be fairly constant for a given crop species in a given environment (Pradhan et al, 2018), huge variability in radiation use efficiency values under optimal conditions have been reported (Lake & Sadras, 2017) and thus there is need for more comprehensive investigations of the relationship between dry matter accumulation and radiation capture under different management and environmental conditions.…”

“…Many studies show that manipulation of field agronomic management practices affects biomass partitioning into grain yield in chickpea (Fotiadis et al, 2017;Lusiba et al, 2018;Raza et al, 2019). Thus, planting early or late in the season may affect radiation capture depending on climate factors such as temperature, rainfall and vapour pressure deficit (VPD) (Richards et al, 2020).…”