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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2020

Phenotyping for drought resistance in bread wheat using physiological and biochemical traits.

Kashif Ahmed, Ghulam Shabbir, Mukhtar Ahmed, Kausar Nawaz Shah

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Kashif AhmedDepartment of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan.
Ghulam ShabbirDepartment of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan.
Mukhtar AhmedDepartment of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå 90183, Sweden; Department of Agronomy, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan. Electronic address: mukhtar.ahmed@slu.se.
Kausar Nawaz ShahDepartment of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan.
Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University · PK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drought is one of the most prominent limiting factors that negatively affect crop productivity by manipulating its physiological pathway. One hundred twenty diverse bread wheat genotypes were used in a pot experiment to explore the relationship among their fifteen physio-biochemical traits (PBT) by using multivariate analysis, heatmapping and stress tolerance index (STI) for grain yield as a marker trait to identify high yielding genotype with maximum stress tolerance capability. Increased proline and sugar accumulation were observed from control to moisture deficient environments by 159% and 122%, respectively. Moreover, leaf membrane stability index (LMSI), leaf relative water content (LRWC), relative dry weight (RDW), chlorophyll content, leaf surface area (LSA), Leaf succulence (LS), canopy temperature depression (CTD), relative excised leaf water loss (RELWL) and leaf osmotic potential (LOP) showed significantly decreasing trend in drought stress treatment as compared to well-watered plants by -21%, -21%, -34%, -22%, -38%, -37%, -46%, -18% and -35% respectively. Additionally, principal component analysis and genotype by trait biplot analysis showed that initial 7 principal components (PC1 to PC7) represented 77.27% and 79.02% of total cumulative variation under control and drought stress respectively. Genotypic-Phenotypic correlation revealed that most of the attributes were higher in case of genotypic correlation component (rg) as compared to the phenotypic correlation component (rp) indicating more genetic association between traits. The darker and lighter colour scale produced by heatmap exhibited contrasting nature of genotypes, as positive side with higher values represented drought resistance while values on the negative side with lower values showed susceptible performance of genotypes. Our results concluded that the studied PBT associated with STI for grain yield are the main factors which may contribute in improved productivity of wheat crop and if these traits show appropriate performance under stress condition the crop will show the more productive returns under changing climate.

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TriticumBreadDroughtsGenotypePhenotypeCorrelation coefficientDroughtHeatmapPhysio-biochemical traitsStress tolerance indexWheat

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PMID32371202
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