Mineral Profiling of Chickpea Wilt against Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ciceris
Mineral Profiling of Chickpea Wilt against Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ciceris
Hafiz Tassawar Abbas1*, Tamoor Khan1, Ghulam Khaliq2, Muhammad Aqeel Sarwar3, Muhammad Rashid4, Intazar Ali5, Muhammad Abuzar Jaffar2, Ghulam Ali Bugti6 and Muhammad Waseem4
ABSTRACT
Chickpea (Cicer arietinurn L.) is a rich source of plant protein. A number of diseases attack chickpea crop but wilt disease is the principle one. In mineral contents i.e. nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, zinc, iron and copper were decreased in chickpea plants affected with wilt disease. Leaves of three resistant and susceptible (un-inoculated and inoculated) chickpea lines/varieties were tested to find out their ionic status (N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Na, Zn, Fe and Cu). The un-inoculated and inoculated plants of resistant and susceptible groups exhibited significant variation (p ≤ 0.05) in the mineral contents. Resistant plants group showed 3.75%, 2.93%, 1359, 1667, 1161, 541, 291, 756.6 and 340.26 ppm in “6005” line while susceptible plants group expressed 1.30%, 0.63%, 503 ppm, 441, 515, 152, 70.21, 285.6 and 70 ppm difference in concentration of N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Na, Zn, Fe and Cu in “Thall-2006” variety respectively. Resistant germplasm contained greater concentrations of these minerals related to susceptible lines/varieties. Increased mineral contents in resistant plants build up the physiological and biochemical methods of the host plants which help to prevent the extent of pathogen.
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