Complementary irrigation Cold tolerance Survival percentage Autumn sowing

In order to evaluate yield and yield components properties of cold-tolerant chickpea under winter sowing and complementary irrigation conditions, two experiments in the context of partial balanced block design with 81 chickpea genotypes and three replications were carried out. Complementary irrigation was performed during growing season including irrigation immediately after sowing, twenty days after the first irrigation and at early phase of flowering. After winter cold, survival percentage of the chickpea genotypes was calculated and total precipitation rate from sowing to harvesting was 267mm. Moreover, properties of seed yield components (survival percentage, pod number per plant, the number of seeds per pod and weight of 1000 seeds), seed yield, biological yield and harvest indices of the genotypes was measured and recorded. Based on the results, the difference between the genotypes was significant for all the measured properties (p<0.05). Under complementary irrigation, 40 % of the genotypes showed winter survival rate higher than 76 % and seed yield in 52 % of the genotypes was higher than 100gr/m2. Under winter sowing condition, seed yield in 32 % of the samples was higher than 40gr/m2. Finally, under winter sowing and complementary irrigation regime, the genotypes MCC333, MCC186, MCC803 and MCC743 possessing yield over 600kg/ha were determined as the superior genotypes. 1