gallers on Cicer

(For a dichotomous table for galls on Cicer arietinum by Hans Roskam click here)

1a Roots with cylindrical or in apical part variously forked nodules. Rhizobium leguminosarum

1b Roots externally unchanged, inside with giant cells, temporarily bearing about poppy-seed sized, white to dark egg capsules. Heterodera goettingiana