A Comparative Study for Assessing the Drought-Tolerance of Chickpea Under Varying Natural Growth Environments.

ABSTRACT: This study was planned with the purpose of evaluating the drought tolerance of advanced breeding lines of chickpea in natural field conditions. Two methods were employed to impose field conditions; the first: simulating drought stress by growing chickpea genotypes at five rainfed areas, with Faisalabad as the non-stressed control environment; and the second: planting chickpea genotypes in spring to simulate a drought stress environment, with winter-sowing serving as the non-stressed environment. Additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) and generalized linear models (GLM) models were both found to be equally effective in extracting main effects in the rainfed experiment. Results demonstrated that environment influenced seed yield, number of primary and secondary branches,

SUBMITTER: Arif A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7928316 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature