Phosphate Homeostasis: Links with Seed Quality and Stress Tolerance in Chickpea

Enhancing Chickpea Productivity through Cluster Frontline Demonstration

“…Farmers realizing the low yield of chickpea due to use of local or old variety, reuse of their own seeds, occurrence of moisture stress, poor management practices especially no use of fertilizers and pesticides for managing pod borer and fusarium wilt disease incidence. Mehra et al, (2018) reported that yield of chickpea is limited due to poor spread of improved varieties and production technologies, imbalanced nutrition, abrupt climatic changes and vulnerability to pests and diseases. Incidences of pod borer causes damage upto 30-40 per cent pods (Rahman, 1990) and root rot and wilt disease causes 10 to 25 per cent yield loss depending upon the stage of the crop (Mahendra, 1998).…”