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taxid: 3827
genus: Cicer
species: arietinum 
abbrev: cicar
commonName: chickpea
description: "Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is a legume species in the group of 'cool-season' legumes, along with lentil, pea, faba bean and clovers. Chickpea is one of the earliest cultivated legumes: 7,500-year-old remains have been found in the Middle East. Other common names for the species include garbanzo bean, ceci bean, sanagalu, chana and Bengal gram. There to are two main types of cultivated chickpeas based on seed morphology, desi and kabuli. The desi type of chickpea consists of seeds with a yellow interior but have a thick, wrinkled and dark seed coat, the seeds are approximately 6 to 7 mm in size. The majority of desi chickpeas are split in half to make Chana Dahl. Whereas, the kabuli type of chickpea are lighter in color, have a smooth seed coat and about 8 to 9 mm in size. The kabuli type of chickpeas are the most common type found in America."

strains:
  - identifier: CDCFrontier 
    accession: CDC Frontier
    name: CDC Frontier
    origin: Canada 
    description: "Chickpea variety CDC Frontier is a kabuli type chickpea (light-seeded), selected as a variety in Canada. The genome has been sequenced: Varshney et al., 2013 (DOI:10.1038/nbt.2491)"
    resources:
      - name: LIS SequenceServer
        URL: "https://sequenceserver.legumeinfo.org/"
        description: "SequenceServer BLAST against the CDC Frontier v1.0 assembly"
  - identifier: ICC4958
    accession: ICC 4958 
    name: ICC 4958
    origin: India
    description: "Chickpea variety ICC 4958 is a desi type chickpea (dark-seeded). The genome has been sequenced: Parween, S et al., 2015 (DOI:10.1038/srep12806)" 
    resources:
      - name: LIS SequenceServer
        URL: "https://sequenceserver.legumeinfo.org/"
        description: "SequenceServer BLAST against the ICC 4958 assembly v2.0"