Open AccessMorpho-physiological responses in wheat (Triticum aestivum L) influenced by normal and water stress conditions
Author(s) -
Piar Ali Shar,
Akhtar Hussain Shar,
Shabana Memon,
Aijaz Ahmed Soomro,
Saleem Ahmed Naich,
Nadir Ali Rind,
Asadullah Laghari,
Khalid Hussain Rind,
Parkash Meghwar,
Sohail Ahmed Otho
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of agriculture and applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2723-5106
DOI - 10.11594/jaab.02.01.01
Subject(s) - morpho , heritability , biology , grain yield , water stress , horticulture , yield (engineering) , agronomy , stress (linguistics) , fight or flight response , zoology , botany , gene , linguistics , philosophy , materials science , biochemistry , metallurgy , genetics
Drought is a disaster around the world accumulating salt and ero-sion in lands. Presently, a research was conducted to determine the morpho-physiological response in bread wheat under normal and stress irrigations. This experiment was conducted at the experimental field of Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Hy-derabad, Pakistan, for two consecutive years during the Rabi season of the year 2011-12 and 2012-13. Stress was imposed by withhold-ing irrigations at three different growth stages of the plant, i.e. T1: normal irrigations applied, T2: stress at tillering stage, and T3: stress at the booting stage. The progenies Sarsabz x Khirman and Sarsabz x TD-1 contributed the highest heritability% (81.0% and 85.5%) for osmotic potential (-MPa) at stress at booting stage. For grain yield spike-1(g), the progeny Kiran-95 x Khirman showed maximum her-itability as 84.37 in T3. However, the progeny TD-1 x Imdad proved to be the best combiner progeny indicating highest heritability per-centage (91.0%) among the progenies for grain yield at booting stress.