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Date
Tale 2
Maximum temperature and rainfall recorded at Faisalabad during February.
Maximum temperature (*C)
Rainfall (mm)
1979 1980 1981 1979 1980 1981
1 15.5 23.0 17.0 Nil Nil Nil
2 18.0 22.0 18.0 Nil Traces Nil
3 19.0 18.0 20.0 Nil 0.2 Nil
4 20.0 18.0 15.0 Nil Nil Nil
5 18.0 16.0 15.0 Nil Nil 6.4
6 18.0 16.0 16.0 Nil Nil Nil
7 17.5 19.0 18.0 Nil Nil Nil
8 19.0 21.0 20.0 Nil Nil Nil
9 21.0 22.0 22.0 Nil Nil Nil
10 22.0 23.0 23.0 Nil Nil Nil
11 20.0 22.0 24.0 Nil Nil Nil
12 21.0 24.0 24.0 Nil Nil Nil
13 19.5 23.0 24.0 Nil Nil Nil
14 21.0 24.0 23.0 Traces Traces Nil
15 22.0 24.0 23.0 Nil Nil Nil
16 16.5 22.0 24.0 7.8 Nil Nil
17 17.0 23.0 24.0 5.6 Nil Nil
18 20.0 25.0 26.0 Nil Nil Nil
19 21.0 25.0 27.0 74.6 Nil Nil
20 15.0 23.0 27.0 7.5 Nil Nil
21 17.0 22.0 27.0 Nil Nil Nil
22 17.0 27.0 27.0 Nil Nil Nil
23 17.0 26.0 27.0 Nil Nil Nil
24 20.0 27.0 27.0 Nil Nil Nil
25 18.0 27.0 28.0 2.2 Nil Nil
26 21.0 28.0 24.0 Nil Nil Nil
27 21.0 28.0 24.0 Traces Nil Nil
28 20.0 27.0 24.0 Nil Nil Nil
29 26.0 Nil
Basis of Resistance
The susceptibility of the resistant chickpea ge.notypes to early infection in 1957
in November-December was explained by the fact that plants of resistant cultivars
like F, and Flo being less than 40 days old, were attacked severely as they
had less malic acid in the early stage. The difference between the resistant and
the susceptible varieties was visible after the plants had grown for 40 days (Hafiz