Market Class: Black Desi Chickpea
Year Registered: 2021
Sub-Licenced outside of SK: pending
International distribution rights: Not assigned
Breeder: Dr. Bunyamin Tar’an, Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan
Description
Black desi chickpea variety CDC Kala represents an opportunity to pursue a niche market for this type of chickpea. CDC Kala has tolerance to imazamox herbicide (Solo ADV as per PMRA label registration). In 3 years of head-to-head testing in the regional chickpea trials (2018 – 2020), compared to the check “Amit”, CDC Kala yielded 92% in the brown soil zone and 97% in the dark brown soil zone (Table 1). CDC Kala is early maturing: 3 days earlier than CDC Consul and 4 days earlier than CDC Cory. Application for PBR’91 protection for CDC Kala has been submitted.
Strengths
- Herbicide tolerance (imazamox)
- Earliest maturing chickpea variety
- Good resistance to Ascochyta blight (similar to CDC Consul; better than CDC Cory)
Weaknesses
- Lower yield than CDC Cory or CDC Consul
- Smaller seed than other desi chickpeas
- Shorter than other desi chickpeas
Agronomic Performance for Desi Chickpea CDC Kala vs. Other Desi Chickpea Varieties and the Kabuli Check CDC Amit (yield data represents 3 years of head-to-head data from the 2018-2020 Chickpea Regional Trial in Western Canada)
| VARIETY | YEAR OF RELEASE | PBR STATUS | TYPE | YIELD % AMIT | DAYS TO MATURITY | DAYS TO FLOWER | HEIGHT (CM) | RVT SEED WEIGHT (G/1000) | 2020 BREEDER SEED (G/1000) | HERBICIDE TOLERANCE: SOLO® ADV (IMAZAMOX) | |
| AREA 1* | AREA 2* | ||||||||||
| AMIT (B-90)CHECK | non VRP | PBR ‘78 | KABULI | 100 | 100 | 4.4 | 108 | 55 | 49 | 246 | N/A |
| CDC CORY (CP55) | 2010 | – | DESI | 104 | 104 | 4.7 | 109 | 55 | 47 | 262 | – |
| CDC CONSUL (603-3) | 2013 | – | DESI | 105 | 106 | 4.5 | 108 | 57 | 47 | 271 | – |
| CDC SUNSET (NEW) | 2021 | APPLIED | DESI | 102 | 96 | 4.9 | 107 | 56 | 49 | 286 | 296 |
| CDC KALA (NEW) | 2021 | APPLIED | BLACK DESI | 92 | 97 | 4.5 | 105 | 52 | 44 | 239 | 242 |
Source of Yield Data: : 2018 – 2020 Chickpea Regional Trials in Western Canada
Source of Agronomic & Disease Ratings: SaskSeed Guide
*Area 1: Brown soil zone; Area 2: Dark brown
**Ascochyta Blight rating: where 0 = no disease; 9 = completely blighted
