Abstract
Crop drought tolerance improvement is one of the most challenging objectives of plant breeding programs. Developing an efficient screening technology and access to genetic variation for the traits contributing toward drought tolerance are major steps in this direction. To go in this quest, an experiment was conducted under controlled condition in a greenhouse. Nine Kabuli chickpea genotypes were grown under well-watered condition (85–90% field capacity (FC)) until start of flowering. Then, the following water treatments were imposed: well-watered, intermediate (55–60% FC), and severe (25–30% FC) drought stress. Physiological and agronomical traits were compared under different water treatments. Drought stress and genotypes interaction was significant in all measured traits, indicating that various genotypes responded differently to drought stress. Among measured traits, electrolyte leakage, stomatal conductance, yield components, and harvest index exhibited the highest variations. Yield components and stomatal conductance showed maximum reduction under drought stress and in susceptible known genotype, ILC3279, reduction reached up to 95%. Principal component analysis indicated that relative water content, photochemical efficiency of photosystem II, and stomatal conductance are the physiological traits with greater contribution toward drought tolerance. Therefore, these traits should be evaluated ahead of many other traits in making selections for drought-tolerant chickpea genotypes.
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Claim · model-written summary
Drought treatment interacted significantly with chickpea genotype for all measured traits.
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- chickpea
Cicer arietinumt0 - Treatment
- Drought stresse0
- Outcome
- all measured traitse0
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e0“Drought stress and genotypes interaction was significant in all measured traits”
t0“chickpea”
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Electrolyte leakage, stomatal conductance, yield components and harvest index had the highest variation.
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- chickpea
Cicer arietinumt0 - Outcome
- electrolyte leakage, stomatal conductance, yield components, and harvest indexe0
- Direction
- highest variationse0
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e0“electrolyte leakage, stomatal conductance, yield components, and harvest index exhibited the highest variations.”
t0“chickpea”
Claim · model-written summary
Yield components showed maximum reduction under drought stress, reaching up to 95% in ILC3279.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinumt0 - Material
- ILC3279e0
- Treatment
- drought stresse0
- Outcome
- Yield componentse0
- Direction
- maximum reductione0
- Value
- 95%e0
- Comparator
- well-waterede1
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e0“Yield components and stomatal conductance showed maximum reduction under drought stress and in susceptible known genotype, ILC3279, reduction reached up to 95%.”
t0“chickpea”
e1“well-watered condition (85–90% field capacity (FC))”
Claim · model-written summary
Stomatal conductance showed maximum reduction under drought stress, reaching up to 95% in ILC3279.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinumt0 - Material
- ILC3279e0
- Treatment
- drought stresse0
- Outcome
- stomatal conductancee0
- Direction
- maximum reductione0
- Value
- 95%e0
- Comparator
- well-waterede1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Yield components and stomatal conductance showed maximum reduction under drought stress and in susceptible known genotype, ILC3279, reduction reached up to 95%.”
t0“chickpea”
e1“well-watered condition (85–90% field capacity (FC))”
Claim · model-written summary
Principal components identified relative water content, PSII photochemical efficiency and stomatal conductance as leading drought tolerance contributors.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinumt0 - Material
- chickpeat0
- Outcome
- drought tolerancee0
- Direction
- greater contributione0
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Verbatim
e0“relative water content, photochemical efficiency of photosystem II, and stomatal conductance are the physiological traits with greater contribution toward drought tolerance.”
t0“chickpea”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend evaluating those physiological traits when selecting drought tolerant chickpea.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinume0 - Outcome
- evaluated ahead of many other traitse0
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Verbatim
e0“these traits should be evaluated ahead of many other traits in making selections for drought-tolerant chickpea genotypes.”
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