Assessment of bread wheat genotypes under normal irrigation and water stress

Abstract EN

Thirty-two bread wheat genotypes included two local cultivars, ten Egyptian selected line, and twenty advanced inbred line from (CIMMYT) were grown in two experiments, i.

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normal irrigation under water stress during the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 seasons in Agronomy Dept.

Research Station, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University.

Mean squares due to irrigations and genotypes were significant for all traits i.

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plant height, spike length, number of spikes/row, number of spikelets/ spike, grain yield/row and 100 grain weight in each season and over the two seasons; suggesting that all traits were markedly affected by water stress and the presence of a wide range of differences among genotypes.

The variance due to interaction between genotypes and irrigation (GxI) was significant for all studied traits.

Mainly, the drought stress caused a relative loss in spike length, number of spikes/row, number of spikelets/spike, grain yield/row and 100 grain weight by 8.53, 23.62, 5.51, 35.81 and 10.83% , respectively, as average of two years.