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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Characterisation and evaluation of wheat genetic resources for heat stress tolerance using stay-green traits

Aarti Soni https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4471-6724 A and Renu Munjal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-261X A *
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A Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125004, India.

* Correspondence to: munjalrenu66@gmail.com

Handling Editor: Mohd. Kamran Khan

Crop & Pasture Science - https://doi.org/10.1071/CP22119
Submitted: 11 April 2022  Accepted: 5 December 2022   Published online: 6 January 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

Context: Post-anthesis heat stress is a major concern for wheat. Stay-green (SG) can serve as a crucial marker for plant adaptation to it. Though genetic resources provide an invaluable gene pool for crop breeding, collections are still uncharacterised and their potential is yet to be explored.

Aims: This study was planned to characterise and evaluate wheat genetic resources, including wild germplasm, for heat stress tolerance using SG traits as selection criteria.

Methods: Experiment was conducted with thirty wheat genotypes under late and very late sown environments for 2 years. Genotypes were assessed for SG traits like Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Soil Plant Analysis Development Chlorophyll Meter Reading (SCMR), Leaf Senescence Rate (LSR), chlorophyll fluorescence (Fv/Fm), canopy temperature (CT), phenological traits, morphological traits, yield and its attributes; and characterised into three categories viz., slow senescing, intermediate senescing and fast senescing, based on their rate of senescence.

Key results: Results indicate that slow-senescing genotypes had a significantly higher NDVI, SCMR and yield as compared to fast-senescing genotypes. NDVI, SCMR, Fv/Fm, days to heading, days to anthesis, days to maturity, grain weight per spike, 100-grain weight and biomass were significantly positively correlated whereas LSR and CT were significantly negatively correlated with grain yield. From the principal component analysis studies, it was revealed that genotypes with a high SCMR, a low LSR, and a high grain yield were placed together as SG genotypes.

Conclusions: This study confirms that genotypes with SG traits performed better under heat stress.

Implications: From the wild, genotypes HTW 11 (W), HTW 67 (W) and HTW 6 (W) can be utilised for heat tolerance breedings.

Keywords: chlorophyll content, grain yield, heat stress, leaf senescence rate, normalised difference vegetation index, stay-green, wheat, wild germplasm.


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