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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Genetic Analysis of Spring Wheat Germplasm
against Water Deficit Conditions
1
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment,
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
2
Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming 650205, China
3
School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith 2751, Australia
4
Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University,
P.O. 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
5
Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur Pakistan,
Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
6
Department of Life Sciences, Western Caspian University, Baku, Azerbaijan
7
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien,
Hoechstaedtplatz 6, 1200 Vienna, Austria
Submission date: 2024-11-12
Final revision date: 2025-01-22
Acceptance date: 2025-03-19
Online publication date: 2025-05-06
Corresponding author
Mueen Alam Khan
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
Maximilian Lackner
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Hoechstaedtplatz 6, 1200 Vienna, Austria
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Hoechstaedtplatz 6, 1200 Vienna, Austria
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TOPICS
ABSTRACT
Spring wheat, also known as bread wheat, is greatly affected by drought, which is one
of the most significant abiotic variables, and the lack of useful selection criteria restricts the breeding
of resistant genotypes. This investigation aimed to evaluate 8 lines and 3 testers, along with their
24 hybrid crosses, for yield-related indices. The combining ability and gene action were also estimated
using line tester analysis. Significant differences were found in the line × tester analysis, demonstrating
the highly significant variations of studied attributes among lines (L), testers (T), L × T, and parents
(P) vs. crosses (C) under both stressed and non-stressed conditions, except the tester revealed
a non-significant difference for only plant height in the non-stressed condition. Out of 8 lines
and 3 testers, L3 (Pasban-90) and T2 (Lasani-2008) proved to be good general combiners in non-stressed
conditions, while in stressed water deficit conditions, L1 (Aas-11), L3 (Pasban-90), L4 (Chakwal-97),
L6 (FSD-08), T2 (Lasani-2008), and T3 (Gomal-2008) exhibited good general combining ability.
The hybrid crosses between L7 × T3 (Shahkar-13 × Gomal-2008) and L3 × T2 (Pasban-90 ×
Lasani-2008) demonstrated good specific combining ability (SCA) under both studied environments.
The predominant non-additive type of gene action observed for all of the studied indices suggests
the development of potential hybrids for drought tolerance.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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