Claim · model-written summary
Ethiopian chickpea germplasm has genetic potential for frost-tolerance traits for use in breeding programs.
- Taxon
- Cicer arietinum
Cicer arietinume0 - Outcome
- genetic potential for frost-tolerance traitse7
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Verbatim
e0“Ethiopian chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) germplasm”
e7“Based on our findings, Ethiopian chickpea germplasm has a genetic potential for frost-tolerance traits for use in breeding programs”
Title
Sintayehu Admas; Teklehaimanot Haileselassie; Kassahun Tesfaye; et al. SINET Ethiopian Journal of Science 2021. doi:10.4314/sinet.v44i2.2
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Genotypes differed significantly in plant height, number of foliage and number of primary branches.
- Observation Genotypes differed significantly in growth rate and fresh biomass weight.
- Observation 31 (43.1%) genotypes scored above 0.8 on plant survival rate.
- Observation 37 (51.4%) genotypes were rated 1 to 3 for freezing tolerance rate in freezing test 1.
- Observation 31 (43.1%) genotypes were rated 1 to 3 for freezing tolerance rate in freezing test 2.
- Association Fresh biomass yield was strongly negatively correlated with plant survival rate in freezing test 1.
- Association Fresh biomass yield was strongly negatively correlated with plant survival rate in freezing test 2.
- Association Fresh biomass yield was strongly positively correlated with the freezing tolerance rate value.
- Observation Based on combined FTR and SR scores, 26 genotypes were frost-tolerant at a temperature as low as -5oC at the seedling stage.