Drought mediated-reduce performance is a big challenge for plant breeder in the world; hereupon attempt is characterization and found the response of plant to the stress at the cellular or/and phenotypic levels. Have a classified collection for each crop in inherent properties is a critical necessity for achieving to these goals. Twenty-eight Kabuli lines with two cultivars namely Jam and Kourosh as check varieties have been surveying to screen drought tolerant genotypes in the field. Some of

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... lerance indices with phenological characters and components of yield considered as measures for the screening. Total dry matter has a robust positive correlation with grain yield. This character followed by 100-seed weight known as the most momentous components in first factor; however, time to maturity and seed numbers were important traits in the second ones by factor analysis. Drought resistance index (DI) detected as key index to distinguish tolerant genotypes of the crop. The genotypes 21, 25, and 166 detected as moer tolerant in the average of drought stress and non-stress conditions. The susceptible genotypes also were 314 and 333 that can were useful bases as extreme selected lines for mechanisms studies in development breeding programs to drought tolerance in chickpea.