Different irrigation regimes were maintained to impose mild to severe drought stress, and natural incidence of the pathogen was considered as pathogen stress. The field experiments were conducted for four consecutive years from 2014–15 to 2017–18 at different locations of India. In this study, the interaction of these two stresses with chickpea, their individual and combined effect and the net impact on plant growth and yield traits were systematically assessed under field and confined pot experiments.
Drought stress and pathogen infection simultaneously occur in the field.
