Susceptibility of Chickpea ( Cicer arietinumL.) Cultivars to Agrobacterium tumefaciens(Smith and Townsend) Conn

Authors: AZİZ KARAKAYA, SEBAHATTİN ÖZCAN

Abstract: Twelve chickpea cultivars grown in Turkey were assessed for susceptibility to wild-type Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains A281 and A136NC. Although all chickpea cultivars showed susceptibility to infection from both A. tumefaciens strains, Diyar-95, Flip 87-8, Ispanyol, Gökçe, Damla-89, and Aziziye-94 had higher frequencies of tumor formation from both strains than the other cultivars tested.

Keywords: Agrobacterium tumefaciens, tumor formation, chickpea

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