Market Class: Kabuli Chickpea
Year Released to Select Seed Growers: 2014
Sub-licensed Outside of SK: SeedNet
International Distribution Rights: Canterra Seeds Ltd.
Breeder: Dr. Bunyamin Tar’an, Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
Plant Breeders Rights:
Description
CDC Palmer is a high-yielding Kabuli type chickpea with a light cream-beige colour and ram-head shaped seed. It has medium-late maturity and moderate resistance to Ascochyta blight. CDC Palmer is well-suited to all current chickpea growing areas in the Dark Brown and Brown soil zones of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta. CDC Palmer has PBR’91 protection.
Strengths
- Improved yield vs. check variety Amit (B-90)
- Large seed size
Neutral
- Ram-head seed shape
- Cream-beige seed colour
- Moderate resistance to Ascochyta blight
- Earlier maturing compared to Amit or CDC Orion but later than CDC Leader
Weaknesses
- Not tolerant to imazamox herbicide
Table 1: Agronomic Performance for CDC Palmer from Co-op and Regional trials in Saskatchewan
| VARIETY | YEAR OF RELEASE | YEARS TESTED | YIELD % AMIT | MATURITY | DAYS TO FLOWER | HEIGHT (CM) | SEED WEIGHT (G/1000) | SEED COAT COLOUR | SEED SHAPE | |
| AREA 1* | AREA 2* | |||||||||
| AMIT (B-90) | N/A | 17 | 100 | 100 | 4.3 | LATE | 56 | 47 | 259 | BEIGE |
| CDC FRONTIER | 2003 | 17 | 107 | 104 | 4.4 | LATE | 52 | 45 | 351 | BEIGE |
| CDC LUNA | 2007 | 16 | 97 | 100 | 5.6 | MID-LATE | 53 | 40 | 370 | BEIGE |
| CDC ALMA | 2010 | 10 | 92 | 93 | 6.0 | LATE | 53 | 41 | 366 | BEIGE |
| CDC ORION | 2010 | 12 | 107 | 105 | 4.9 | LATE | 50 | 44 | 435 | BEIGE |
| CDC LEADER | 2011 | 13 | 107 | 107 | 4.3 | MEDIUM | 54 | 42 | 392 | BEIGE |
| CDC PALMER | 2014 | 8 | 105 | 101 | 4.8 | MID-LATE | 52 | 42 | 419 | BEIGE |
*Area 1: Brown soil zone; Area 2: Dark brown
**Ascochyta Blight at pod filling period: 0 – 9 scale; where: 0 = no symptoms; 9 = plants are completely blighted. Scores 4 – 6 are considered intermediate.
