DEVELOPMENT OF SELECTION CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT OF CHICKPEA (Cicer arientum L.) ON PHYSIO-MORPHIC ATTRIBUTES UNDER DROUGHT STRESS AT SEEDLING STAGE AND MATURITY

Chickpea is one of the pivotal legume due to its nutritious value and used all over the world as food for human and feed for animals. Drought is effecting grain yield up to 30-40% in chickpea. The initial move towards improvement of drought tolerance in chickpea is to screen existing germplasm. The experiment conducted in Pulses Research Institute Faisalabad in 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. Ten Desi chickpea and 10 Kabuli chickpea genotypes assessed...