METROGLYPH ANALYSIS IN 6 SPECIES OF CICER

Patterns of morphological variation in Cicer species were determined b y Metroglyph method which revealed apparently three clusters of one or more species out of six studied. C. pinnatifidum represented by singl e strain showed an isolation from the rest of the clusters. Strikingly the glyph representing strain no. 7 of C. arietinum was distantly loc ated though it should have belonged to the cluster formed by other str ains of the same species. Cluster I was comprised of C. arietinum, C. judaicum and C. cuneatum while cluster II and III were formed by singl e species namely C. bijugum and C. reticulatum, respectively. The ray' s pattern on the glyph among the clusters revealed a marked variation for the presence or absence of rays and mostly inclined rays; horizont al rays were more or less common among the glyphs.