Analysis of variance for combining ability revealed that the variance due to gca were highly significant for all the characters in all the environments except for days to maturity in E1, plant height and primary branches plant-1 in E1, E2 and E3, secondary branches, seed yield and harvest index in E2 and E3, pods plant-1 in E1 and E2, biological yield plant-1 in E2 and protein content in E1. | Genetics analysis of yield and quality characters in chickpea Cicer arietinum L. under rice based cropping system