Irrigation levels influenced on morphophysiological characters of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L)

Abstract An experiment was conducted at the Research farm and laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology Department, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur during November 2012 to April 2013 to evaluate Morpho-physiological attributes, of Chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) varieties affected by irrigations levels. The experiment was laid out in split plot design with three replications. Four irrigation levels {I 0 -No irrigation (control), I 1 -30 mm irrigation one at pre-flowering stage, I 2 -30 mm irrigation one at pod formation stage and I 3 (30+30=60 mm irrigation one at pre-flowering stage and one at pod formation stage } were considered as main plot treatment and three chickpea genotypes (Barichhola-6, Barichhola-7 and Barichhola-9) were considered as sub plot treatment. Experiment showed that most of the morpho-physiological characters such as plant height, number of branches plant -1 , number of leaves plant , MRC, RLWC, chlorophyll content, number of total flower plant