Chick pea Cicer arietinum

The seeds cf many other species cf legumes are also eaten. These inclnde the chick pea Cicer arietinum, lentil Lens escidenta, common pea Pisuni sativuni, broad or faba bean Viciafaba, cow pea Vigna sinensis, common bean P. vulgaris, mung bean Pkaseolus aureus, Lima bean P. lunatus, and scarlet runner bean P. mult lorus. The entire pod of the carob Ceratonia sili-qua can be eaten and is similar to a candy because cf the naturally large concentratim of si ar that it contains. 

Grewal RK, Lulsdorf M, Croser J, Ochatt S, Vandenberg A and Warkentin TD. 2009. Doubled haploid production in chick pea (Cicer arietinum L.) role of stress treatments. Plant Cell Rep 28 1289 -1299. 

The degradative enzyme was found in every higher plant that was tested for it, and in the chick pea, Cicer arietinum, it was found in only those organs which are rich in flavonols. The enzyme is produced between the second and sixth day after germination and appears to parallel PAL activity in its time of synthesis. Thus, the regulation of synthesis and degradation of flavonols are interdependent and cfbsely correlated events, and active turnover must occur from the very moment of synthesis. 

Gomez-Jimenez MD, Garda-Olivares E, Matilla AJ (2001) 1-Aminocyclopropane-l-caiboxylate oxidase from embryonic axes of germinating chick pea Cicer arietinum L.) seeds cellular immunolocalization and alterations in its expression by indole-3-acetic add, absdsic add and spermine. Seed Sd Res 11 243—253... 

Kaempferol-3 (3- glucoapioside kaempferol 4, 3,5,7-tetra- hydroxy- flavone Cicer arietinum (chick pea)37... 

In storage organs of other seeds a similar pattern of events can occur. In cotyledons (and embryos) of Cicer arietinum (chick-pea), enzymes of the glycolysis and fermentative pathways rise over the first 24 h after imbibition starts and then decline [41]. Enzymes of other pathways were not measured. In radish cotyledons, however, enzymes of the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway are present in the dry seed to a high level and rise even further over several days after imbibition. In contrast, the activity of the glycolytic enzyme phosphofructokinase never rises above the low level present in dry seed [108]. 

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