WHEAT BREEDING IN A WATER-STRESSED ENVIRONMENT .5. CARBON-ISOTOPE DISCRIMINATION AS A SELECTION CRITERION

Authors
SADIQ MS ARAIN CR AZMI AR
Citation
Ms. Sadiq et al., WHEAT BREEDING IN A WATER-STRESSED ENVIRONMENT .5. CARBON-ISOTOPE DISCRIMINATION AS A SELECTION CRITERION, Cereal Research Communications, 25(1), 1997, pp. 43-49
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture
Journal title
Cereal Research Communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
01333720
Volume
25
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
43 - 49
Database
ISI
SICI code
0133-3720(1997)25:1<43:WBIAWE>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
To assess the potential of carbon isotope discrimination as a selectio n criterion for enhancing stress yield, simulated water deficit field studies were undertaken to measure its genetic variation and associati on with yield and yield related traits. Discrimination was significant ly reduced in terminal stress compared to well watered conditions. Car bon isotope discrimination was significantly correlated with grain yie ld, biological yield, harvest index, and productive tillers under term inal and preanthesis stress.