Conferring drought-tolerant wheat genotypes through morpho-physiological and chlorophyll indices at seedling stage.

ABSTRACT: The decrease in water resources due to the excessive use of water for irrigation purpose and climatic changes represents a serious world-wide threat to food security. In this regards, 50 wheat accessions were analyzed, using completely random factorial design at the seedlings stage under normal and drought stress conditions. Significant variation was detected among all accessions under both conditions. All characters studied showed variations in the mean values in water deficit environments in studied gemplasm at seedling stage. As seedling fresh weight, dry weight, relative water content, cell membrane thermo-stability, chlorophyll a & b were positively associated among themselves under drought conditions which showed the significance of these attribute for water deficit areas in f

SUBMITTER: Ahmed HGM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7376211 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature