Available water is an important factor for plant gr owth in arid environments. Foliar application of me thanol are believed to be more important in drought tolerance. In order to evaluate the effects of foliar applica tion of methanol on some morphological characteristics of chickpea u nder drought stress, an factorial experiment was co nducted factorial based on completely randomized design with three replications in 2011 at the Recearch Center for Sciences of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. The fir st factor was different levels of methanol including, 0 (control), 20, 25, 30, 35 volumetric percentage (v/v), which were used as foliar applications at three times duri ng growth season of chickpea, with 10 days intervals. Second factor was moisture regimes in two levels, 25 and 100 percent of field capacity. Results showed that there was significant difference (P ≤ 0.01) between methanol levels concentrations regarding to plant height, root dry weight, tap root length, root area, root area to le af area ratio, total root length, leaf area, root to shoot ratio, number of lateral root, root volume and root fresh weight. Spraying with 25% volume level significantly increased in pl ant height, number of lateral root, root dry weight , tap root length, root area, root area to leaf area ratio, to tal root length, root to shoot ratio and leaf area compared with control. Results indicated that interactions betwee n drought and methanol was significant differences (P ≤ 0.05) in traits such as, root to shoot ratio, leaf area and total root length.

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