Author(s): Narendra Kumar
The chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is a legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It is also known as gram, or Bengal gram, garbanzo or garbanzo bean and sometimes known as Egyptian pea, ceci, cece or chana, or Kabuli chana (particularly in northern India). The 20 food seed samples of chick pea (Cicer arietinum L) were collected from farmer markets of Panchgaon (Gurgaon) Haryana. The mycobiota analysis through Std. blotter paper, Agar plate, Seed washates of food seed revealed the presence of 16 fungal species viz., Aspergillus flavus, A. fumigatus, A. niger, A. sydowi, A. ochraceous, A. terreus, A. nidulans, Cladosporium macrocarpum, F. oxysporum, F. semitectum, Macrophomina phaseolina, Penicillium notatum, Sclerotium rolfsii, Rhizoctonia solani, R. batatiocola, Rhizopus arrhizus. These species showed diversity in terms of Percent (%) frequency of fungi. In these species Aspergillus flavus, A. niger, A. ochraceous, A. terreus showed dominance in terms of Percent (%) frequency of fungi. The insect analysis revealed presence of one species of insect Callosobruchus chinensis. These species showed reduction in terms of weight loss, germination, protein content and carbohydrate content.
