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Pulse Varieties

A number of new pulses have been released with support from CLIMA, Department of Agriculture and Food WA, national breeding programs and the Grains Research and Development Corporation.

Nafice chickpea

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Farmnote on growing kabuli chickpea [591kb]

Nafice is a large seeded kabuli type chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), with improved ascochyta blight resistance, released in August 2005.  It has an attractive beige seed coat colour similar to Kaniva, and greater seed size than Kaniva or Almaz. It is recomended for winter sowing regions of Australia with medium to high rainfall (400-700mm annual), deep fertile soils and mild spring conditions. Nafice was developed by Prof. Kadambot Siddique, Ms Kerry Regan, Mr Mike Baker, Mr Tim Pope and Dr Rajendra Malhotra and is a selection from segregating material provided by ICARDA (International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas), Syria.

Almaz chickpea

Variety leaflet [617kb]

Farmnote on growing Kabuli chickpea [591kb]

Almaz is a high yielding kabuli type chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), with large seed size and improved ascochyta blight resistance, released in August 2005. It has an attractive beige seed coat colour similar to Kaniva, and greater seed size than Kaniva and is higher yielding than current large seeded kabuli chickpea varieties. It is recomended for winter sowing regions of Australia with medium to high rainfall (400-700mm annual), deep fertile soils and mild spring conditions. Nafice was developed by Prof. Kadambot Siddique, Ms Kerry Regan, Mr Mike Baker, Mr Tim Pope and Dr Rajendra Malhotra and is a selection from segregating material provided by ICARDA (International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas), Syria.

Kimberley Large chickpea

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Kimberley Large is an extra large seeded high yielding kabuli type chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), released in 2004. It has a white seed coat colour and is a replacement to Macarena, being higher yielding and having a greater seed size. It is recomended for the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA) and Central Queensland region. Kimberly Large was developed by Prof. Kadambot Siddique (CLIMA) and Ms Kerry Regan (DAFWA) and is a selection from germplasm supplied by ICARDA (International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas), Syria.

Sonali chickpea

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Sonali is a new desi-type chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) released in 2004 with higher yield and greater resistance to ascochyta blight than other varieties in WA.  It requires less fungicide to manage disease, has early flowering and reaches maturity earlier, as well as being more tolerant to cold weather.  It is recommended for WA's northern and central Wheatbelt, but also has potential for the low rainfall areas of South Australia, Victoria and southern NSW.

Rupali chickpea

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Rupali is a new desi-type chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) released in 2004 with higher quality and greater resistance to ascochyta blight than other varieties in WA.  Like Sonali, it requires less fungicide to manage disease, has early flowering and reaches maturity earlier, as well as being more tolerant to cold weather.  It is lower yielding than Sonali but has an attractive bright light brown seed coat that has a considerable marketing advantage.  It is recommended for WA's northern and central Wheatbelt, but also has potential for the low rainfall areas of South Australia, Victoria and southern NSW.

Both Sonali and Rupali were developed by Dr Tanveer Khan (DAFWA) and Dr Heather Clarke (CLIMA) and the Department of Agriculture WA chickpea breeding team, supported by CLIMA.

Heera chickpea

Heera chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an early flowering, widely adapted, high yielding chickpea which yields better than standard varieties Tyson and Dooen in medium and low rainfall areas. Its greatest potential is in medium rainfall areas. It is taller and more upright than Tyson, so is easier to harvest. It has better seed quality than other varieties, with faster cooking times. It has large seeds of an attractive brown/yellow colour, considerably paler than seed of Tyson. Heera is showing variation in tolerance to Ascochyta blight within the cultivar.

Sona chickpea

Sona chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a high yielding, high quality chickpea which out-yields all current varieties in the low to medium rainfall areas. It flowers earlier than all other named varieties - about two weeks earlier than Tyson and Dooen and several days earlier than Heera. Like Heera, it is taller and more upright than Tyson. It has moderate resistance to fusarium wilt and root rots. Sona has large seeds with attractive yellow seed coats. Its cooking time is marginally slower than that of Heera but faster than Tyson and Dooen.

Both Heera and Sona were developed by Dr Tanveer Khan (DAFWA) and Prof. Kadambot Siddique (CLIMA) and the Department of Agriculture WA chickpea breeding team, supported by CLIMA. Each came from an accession from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India.

Cassab lentil

Cassab lentil (Lens culinaris L.) is a high yielding, high quality red lentil for the low and medium rainfall areas of southern Australia. It flowers two to 10 days earlier than current varieties Digger and Northfield and sets pods earlier. It is slightly taller and more upright than Northfield, so is easier to harvest. Its seeds have a reddish-brown seed coat and uniform red cotyledons and are larger than those of Digger and Northfield. It also cooks faster than those varieties.

Cassab is moderately resistant to Botrytis grey mould and Ascochyta blight.

Cumra lentil

Cumra lentil (Lens culinaris L.) is a high yielding, high quality red lentil for the low rainfall areas of southern Australia. It flowers seven to 15 days earlier than Digger and Northfield and sets its pods earlier. It is taller and more upright, so is easier to harvest. Its foliage is a paler green than other Australian varieties and has more tendrils. Cumra seeds are larger than those of other Australian varieties and have a reddish-brown seed coat and uniform red cotyledons. It cooks faster than Digger and Northfield.

Cumra is sensitive to Ascochyta blight but moderately resistant to Botrytis grey mould.

Cumra and Cassab were developed by Prof. Kadambot Siddique and the CLIMA germplasm evaluation team. Both were derived from accessions from ICARDA, Syria.

Ceora grasspea

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Ceora is Australia's first grasspea (Lathyrus sativus) and was released in 2005. It's growth is similar to a field pea and it is a multi-purpose, low-cost, low-input grain legume suitable for forage, hay or green manure production. It has superior tolerance to waterlogging and drought stress and is disease resistant. It is best adapted to medium to heavy textured soils where the annual rainfall ranges between 300-650 mm.It has very low toxin content compared with overseas varieties.Ceora was bred by Dr Colin Hanbury, Prof. Kadambot Siddique and Dr Ashutosh Sarker, CLIMA. It is a selection from a cross made in 1994 between lines from Bangladesh and Pakistan.&

Chalus lathyrus

Chalus lathyrus (Lathyrus cicera L.) is a high yielding, high quality Lathyrus cicera variety for low and medium rainfall areas of Australia. It flowers earlier than the only other variety available in Australia and produces slightly higher yields. Its seed ODAP content is considerably lower than that variety. At dry sites in Western Australia its yields are equivalent to Dundale field pea and because it is not susceptible to black spot of field pea it can be used in rotations where black spot is a serious problem in field pea. Chalus can be used as a multi-purpose crop for direct grazing, hay or silage, green manuring or grain production. Its seed is a useful stockfeed for ruminants.

Chalus was developed by Colin Hanbury and Kadambot Siddique and was selected from a line supplied by ICARDA, Syria.

Tallerack lupin

Tallerack lupin (Lupinus angustifolius L.) is the first restricted branching cultivar of narrow leafed lupins in Australia. Tallerack is vigorous in its early growth and is early flowering (2-3 days ahead of Gungurru and Merrit and slightly ahead of Myallie). Flowering occurs on leaf nodes 15-18 compared with leaf nodes 18-21 on Gungurru and Merrit. However, harvest height is greater than in Gugurru or Merrit. The restricted branching character is not revealed until after flowering.

Restricted branching reduces the overall height of Tallerack at maturity. The pods are produced in a more compact layer in the crop canopy, and this should improve machine harvest.

Wodjil lupin

Wodjil lupin (Lupinus luteus L.)is the first sweet yellow lupin with early flowering for Australian conditions. Wodjil has a red pigment in the stem and leaves in the early stages of growth, and pale lemon flowers.

Podding on the main stem is much more prolific than in narrow-leafed lupins, but may be poor on lateral branches.

Wodjil is tolerant of mild water logging. It also tolerates aluminium toxicity in soil. It is very efficient at extracting phosphorus and manganese and rarely suffers from a deficiency in these elements.

 

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