Unraveling the impact of water deficit stress on nutritional quality and defense response of tomato genotypes.

ABSTRACT: Water deficit stress triggers various physiological and biochemical changes in plants, substantially affecting both overall plant defense response and thus nutritional quality of tomatoes. The aim of this study was to assess the antioxidant defense response and nutritional quality of different tomato genotypes under water deficit stress. In this study, six tomato genotypes were used and subjected to water deficit stress by withholding water for eight days under glass house conditions. Various physiological parameters from leaves and biochemical parameters from tomato fruits were measured to check the effect of antioxidant defense response and nutritional value. Multi-trait genotype-ideotype distance index (MGIDI) was used for the selection of genotypes with improved defense response and nu

SUBMITTER: Wadood A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11217520 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature