Chickpea Dry Root Rot Disease Phenome Database (CDPdb)

CDPdb

Dry root rot (DRR) disease, an emerging threat to chickpea in the era of climate change, is caused by the soil-borne necrotrophic fungal pathogen Macrophomina phaseolina (Ranjan et al., 2024; Rai et al., 2022). DRR disease incidence is aggravated by drought and high temperatures, causing severe yield losses of up to 80-100% in susceptible varieties (Chilakala et al., 2022; Chilakala et al., 2023; Irulappan et al., 2022). Recognizing its significance, efforts have been made to identify sources of resistance in chickpea. Although several studies have been conducted, a complete source of resistance is currently unknown.