ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Seedling Survivability and Change
of Some Physiological Characters for Drought
Resistance in Wheat
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Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Agricultural Faculty, Department of Field Crops, Tekirdağ, Turkey
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Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Tekirdağ, Turkey
Submission date: 2024-02-22
Final revision date: 2024-03-26
Acceptance date: 2024-05-03
Online publication date: 2024-09-24
Publication date: 2025-01-28
Corresponding author
Damla Balaban Göçmen
Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Agricultural Faculty, Department of Field Crops, Tekirdağ, Turkey
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(3):2579-2587
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Detection of genotypic variation in response to water stress at the seedling stage provides important
contributions to plant breeders in the rapid and effective selection of drought-resistant genotypes.
The study was conducted in 2021 under in vivo conditions using soil samples taken from the trial area
of Namık Kemal University Faculty of Agriculture Department of Field Crops and 45 genotypes, including
39 bread wheat, 1 rye, 1 Spella, 2 Kavlıca, and 2 Einkorn populations. Seedling survivability,
stomata density, stomata width and length, seedling development score, canopy temperature, and chlorophyll
content were examined to determine the early drought resistance in the experiment. When 45 genotypes
in different maturing groups were examined for seedling survivability after drought application,
the highest seedling survivability was found in Esperia, Rumeli, Krasunia O’deska, Almeria, Falado,
and Rebelde varieties with 5 score values. Adelaide, President, Selimiye, Hakan, Quality, Hamza, LG
59, Golia, Siyez 1, and Siyez 2 genotypes showed the lowest seedling survivability. Esperia, Rumelia,
Krasunia O’deska, Almeria, Falado, and Rebelde varieties, which have a high seedling survival rate,
have low canopy temperature and high chlorophyll content. The data obtained show that early seedling
survivability can be used in the selection of genotypes for drought resistance.
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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