Cicer arietinum (chickpea)
Overview
Chickpea is a member of the galegoid (cool-season) legume clade. This annual grain legume crop is cultivated in both northern temperate regions (e.g. the north-west U.S. or south-central Canada), and in arid and semi-arid areas of the developing world. Chickpea is valuable as a highly versatile and nutritious pulse.
Of Special Interest
See chickpea transcriptome assemblies and related resources on the LIS Medicago genome browser, the transcriptome assemblies and resources at the Cool Season Food Legume Database, and chickpea research highlighted at KnowPulse.
| NCBI taxon | 3827 | |
| GRIN taxon | 10535 | |
| Pollination type | Self |
Genome Summary
| Chromosomes | 2n = 2x = 16 | |
| Genome size | ~740 (Mbp) | |
| Chloroplast genome size | 125 (kbp) | |
| Chloroplast NCBI accession number | NC_011163 |
Resources
| BAC library and clones | See linked document to order clones | Linkout » |
Reference Data
Selected References
Current publications on Cicer arietinum at PubMed.
Garg R, Patel RK, Jhanwar S, Priya P, Bhattacharjee A, Yadav G, Bhatia S, Chattopadhyay D, Tyagi AK, Jain M. Gene discovery and tissue-specific transcriptome analysis in chickpea with massively parallel pyrosequencing and web resource development. Plant Physiol. 2011 Jun 8. [Epub ahead of print].
Hiremath PJ, Farmer A, Cannon SB, Woodward J, Kudapa H, Tuteja R, Kumar A, Bhanuprakash A, Mulaosmanovic B, Gujaria N, Krishnamurthy L, Gaur PM, Kavikishor PB, Shah T, Srinivasan R, Lohse M, Xiao Y, Town CD, Cook DR, May GD, Varshney RK. Large-scale transcriptome analysis in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), an orphan legume crop of the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. Plant Biotechnol J. 2011 May 25. doi: 10.1111/j: 1467-7652.2011.00625.x. [Epub ahead of print]
Gujaria N, Kumar A, Dauthal P, Dubey A, Hiremath P, Bhanu Prakash A, Farmer A, Bhide M, Shah T, Gaur PM, Upadhyaya HD, Bhatia S, Cook DR, May GD, Varshney RK. Development and use of genic molecular markers (GMMs) for construction of a transcript map of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Theor Appl Genet. 2011 May; 122(8): 1577-89.
Nayak SN, Zhu H, Varghese N, Datta S, Choi HK, Horres R, Jüngling R, Singh J, Kishor PB, Sivaramakrishnan S, Hoisington DA, Kahl G, Winter P, Cook DR, Varshney RK. Integration of novel SSR and gene-based SNP marker loci in the chickpea genetic map and establishment of new anchor points with Medicago truncatula genome. Theor Appl Genet. 2010 May; 120(7): 1415-41.
Varshney RK, Hiremath PJ, Lekha P, Kashiwagi J, Balaji J, Deokar AA, Vadez V, Xiao Y, Srinivasan R, Gaur PM, Siddique KH, Town CD, Hoisington DA. A comprehensive resource of drought- and salinity- responsive ESTs for gene discovery and marker development in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). BMC Genomics. 2009 Nov 15; 10: 523.
Aluko RE. Determination of nutritional and bioactive properties of peptides in enzymatic pea, chickpea, and mung bean protein hydrolysates. J AOAC Int. 2008 Jul-Aug; 91(4): 947-56.