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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (36): 12-16.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2022-0012

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Wheat Variety ‘Wanmai632’: Tolerance Under Drought Stress

ZHANG Bin(), LI Jinxiu, WANG Zhen, SHI Lichao, LI Jinbang()   

  1. Nanyang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanyang, Henan 473000
  • Received:2022-01-05 Revised:2022-05-02 Online:2022-12-25 Published:2023-01-17

Abstract:

In order to explore the drought tolerance of new wheat variety ‘Wanmai632’, ‘Zhoumai18’ was used as the control in this study. Drought tolerance indexes were determined by the methods of simulating drought stress with PEG and natural drought stress. Without drought stress, there was no significant difference between ‘Wanmai632’ and ‘Zhoumai18’ in drought tolerance indexes. The yield of the two varieties was 7052 kg/hm2 and 6916 kg/hm2, respectively. Under drought stress, the germination rate and germination potential of ‘Wanmai632’ were 44.23% and 106.25% higher than those of ‘Zhoumai18’ at germination stage, respectively. The seedling height, root length, fresh weight of stem-leaf and root of ‘Wanmai632’ were 62.90%, 55.32%, 83.33% and 60.00% higher than those of ‘Zhoumai18’ at seedling stage, respectively. The plant height, maximum tillering number, effective spike number, grains per spike, 1000-grain weight and grain yield of ‘Wanmai632’ were 2.99%, 1.94%, 1.44%, 14.71%, 10.61% and 6.80% higher than those of ‘Zhoumai18’ at adult-plant stage, respectively. The differences of these characters were significant except that of effective spike number. In addition, the comprehensive drought tolerance index of ‘Wanmai632’ and ‘Zhoumai18’ was 0.901 and 0.582, respectively. To sum up, ‘Wanmai632’ has less inhibition on growth under drought stress. All the drought tolerance indexes of ‘Wanmai632’ are better than those of ‘Zhoumai18’. ‘Wanmai632’ has relatively high tolerance to drought stress and yield advantage in arid environment.

Key words: wheat, ‘Wanmai632’, drought stress, drought tolerance, drought tolerance index