Variability studies: Various descriptive statistics for different chickpea plant traits were determined (Table-5).

4 PEOPLE used to think that if you touched a chickpea plant when there was a new moon if would cure your warts.

The bushy chickpea plant annually grows to a height of two feet.

(1995) reported 9.7g per chickpea plant yield with no insect damage (multiplied by 130,000 plants ha-1 to obtain a seed yield of 1.26 t ha-1).

Doubling kabuli chickpea plant population resulted in a 52% yield increase in a Mediterranean-type environment in Jordan (Kostrinski, 1974).

During our study, selectable marker gene and GUS assay were used for the assessment of transgene activity in chickpea plants. Hygromycin (75%) was found to be optimal lethal dose that didn't affect chickpea plant regeneration.

Resistance was quantitative resulting in a reduction in the number of emerged broomrapes per chickpea plant [1].

There were significant interactions in the contents of potassium in the roots of chickpea plant with increasing salt stress.

The chickpea plants treated with fungicides gave 26-34% disease incidence of fusarium wilt as compared to untreated plants, which have 80% incidence.

Poor root nodulation of chickpea plants grown on Zn-deficient soil, as observed in the present investigation, could be related to the reduction in nitrogen fixation (Ahlawat et al., 2007), which further contributes to decrease in crop yield.