Legumes, as we know, have an edge of nodule formation over other crops to fix atmospheric nitrogen and its uptake which, otherwise, would not be so easily available. But drought affects nodules by reducing their activity and ultimately reducing yield. So, there is a need to compensate this loss of nitrogen by different means. Therefore, a study was planned where different c hickpea genotypes were subject to different water treatments and ni trogen spray . Three treatments i.e., irrigation at pod formation (T1) , no irrigation at pod formation (T2), and no irrigation plus two foliar sprays of 1% nitrogenous fertilizer at the initiation of flowering and pod filling stage (T3) were applied to fifty genotypes sown in two-factor factorial under RCBD. Treatment mean c omparison showed that p rimary branches, secondary branches, days to flowering were non-significantly different in T1 (irrigated) and T 3 (2 nitrogen spray and no irrigation) while other traits were significantly different for all treatments . Radar diagram showed that grain yield for T1 and T3 were very closer to each other which showed that nitrogen spray was able mitigate or supplement the inhibitory effects of drought on grain yield. Direct Principle component analysis on yield data proved to be ineffective for diversity analysis due to representation of least variability (25% only) by PCA biplot. Drought tolerance indices based PCA biplot showed 80% cumulative variability for PC1 and PC2 so, we preferred it for
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