countries across five continents. It maintains soil fertility through biological nitrogen fixation
and contributes to the sustainability of cropping systems in cereal-legumes rotation.
Ascochyta blight (AB, caused by Ascochyta rabiei) and Botrytis gray mould (BGM, caused by
Botrytis cinerea) are destructive fungal foliar diseases of chickpea (Davidson et al. 2004;
Pande et al. 2004 and Pande et al. 2005) that can cause up to 100% yield losses. Cool and …