нут; селекция; сорт; образец; засухоустойчивость; раннеспелость; крупносемянность; аскохитоз

Abstract

The aim and tasks of the study. To summarize and organize achievements of the world chickpea breeding to evaluate prospects of the crop production expansion.

Results and discussion. The article reviews major trends in chickpea breeding, such as drought tolearance, resistance to diseases, earliness, high grain quality, high yield capacity, a set of valuable traits, coordinated breeding to improve the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis. Breeders’ recent achievements in creation of new cultivars, implementation of which solves major tasks of chickpea production expansion in the world and especially in Ukraine, are described.

Conclusions. Wide implementation of modern methods of development of novel commercially valuable cultivars is observed in chickpea breeding, which contribute to the spread of this crop in agricultural production. In Ukraine, the breeding of this crop is a new trend; however, there are positive results. Domestic chickpea cultivars showed good results not only in Ukraine but also in Russia and Kazakhstan