New Chickpea Study Reveals Key Traits for Higher Yields
The study looked at 40 different types of chickpeas to see how they varied in traits like plant height, number of pods, and seed yield. They found that some traits, like seed yield and number of pods, had a lot of variability between the different types of chickpeas. Traits like days to maturity had less variability. They also found that traits like seed yield and pod number were closely related, while traits like plant height and days to flowering were not. Overall, traits like days to flowering, pod number, and plant branches were important for predicting seed yield in chickpeas.