Abstract
A set of most released 46 chickpea accessions maintained in the collection of the Legume’s Genebank of the Agrarian University of Georgia (AUG) was regenerated using advance growing technology of seed pilling and nano herbicides. For AUG grain legumes are mandatory crops in the frame of country regulations. The level of genetic diversity and the affectivity of new germplasm acquisition for the collection enrichment were evaluated. All of them, safety duplicated 6 years ago, needed regular regeneration for future breeding works, as well as for sending to genebanks of our collaborators and breeder in abroad in accordance with international agreements. A new material was obtained from all the accessions special pilot plots of chickpea. Recently acquired new germplasm contributed all of new entire collection, i.e. almost 100% of collected diversity originated from the recently obtained accessions. Remarkable is also, that all accession carries a unique germination, not present in the remaining collection. Field and lab analysis revealed the importance of collecting missions for the enrichment of collections of genetic resources. They will be used locally and sent to international scientific institutions.
Highlights
In Georgia the chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a traditional grain legume crop during above 31 centuries and influenced the food supply chain, especially in warmer and drier Eastern Georgia regions
The chickpea genetic resources collection maintained in the genebank of the Agrarian University of Georgia (AUG), as this institution is responsible for legume crops for Georgia
From the aspect of effective management of the plant genetic resources it is beneficial if the acquisition of any new accessions into the established collection is associated with proteome and genome based analysis using molecular markers besides morphological and agronomical analyses [9,10,18]
Summary
In Georgia the chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a traditional grain legume crop during above 31 centuries (except recent 2 centuries) and influenced the food supply chain, especially in warmer and drier Eastern Georgia regions. This crop is not a dominant legume species in Georgian agriculture where other grain legumes such as haricot bean and soybean predominate. Chickpea grain are considered as an important source of minerals and vitamins necessary for human and animal nutrition and provide a protein-rich supplement to the diet of vegetarians, as well as for children food [3, 7, 13]
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