Wheat is the most important crop in the world which faces the global problem of drought. Its production is affected by water deficit after pollination in arid and semi-arid regions. An experiment was conducted to assess tolerance of 39 bread wheat genotypes to end-season drought....
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2019/v34i630168
Tolerance strategies under water deficit conditions involve many physiological and biochemical responses which help crops to cope with drought stress. To study wheat response to stress, twenty Iranian wheat genotypes were evaluated in two separate field experiments during 2009-20...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/28354
Yellow or stripe rust is one of the most important and destructive wheat diseases all over the world. The best strategy to control this disease is genetic resistance through combining several resistance genes which results in achieving long lasting resistance. Marker assisted sel...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9821
Aims: Drought is the most important environmental stresses in arid and semi-arid regions worldwide. Triticale offers ample genetic variation for the improvement of its productivity under limited water conditions. In order to investigate triticale and wheat potential under dry lan...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2016/25726
Salinity is a major limiting factor of growth and grain yield in most crop plants. In the present study, the response of 12 triticale genotypes, 3 wheat commercial cultivars and a rye genotype to four levels of salinity (1:1 ratio of NaCl and CaCl2 salts with EC=0, 7, 14 and 21 d...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/27098
Antioxidants provide a defense line against adverse effects of free radicals released in plant cells under drought stress. Accumulation of antioxidants may link with higher grain yield in environmental stress conditions. The aim of this study was to evaluate antioxidants accumula...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/18751
Screening and introducing landrace varieties (as useful cultigens) is important for cultivation under abiotic stresses in temperate regions with low precipitations. To evaluate the response of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) landraces to post-heading drought stress, two types of cul...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/14960