Screening of Almond Hybrids for Drought Tolerance Using some Morphological and Physiological Traits

Journal of Nuts

مقاله 7، دوره 11، شماره 1، خرداد 2020، صفحه 73-90   

نوع مقاله: Research Article

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22034/jon.2020.673542

نویسندگان

Arvin Abdini¹؛ Ali Imani^{* 2}؛ Mousa Rasouli³؛ Mehrshad Zinalabdini⁴؛ Vahid Abdoosi⁴

¹Department of Horticulture Science, University of Tehran, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

²Temperate Fruit Research Center, Horticultural Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran

³Department of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Malayer University, Malayer, Hamedan, Iran

⁴Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran

چکیده

In this research, twenty-two selected almond hybrids with their parents ‘A1-99’ (drought-sensitive) and ‘Tuono’ (relatively tolerant against drought), were investigated for screening drought tolerance using some morphological and physiological traits. This research was carried out in a complete randomized design with three replications at the Temperate Fruit Research Center of Horticultural Sciences Research Institute (HSRI) in years of 2014 and 2015. The results showed that by applying severe drought stress (30% FC), some morphological and physiological characteristics such as chlorophyll index (ChI), relative water content (RWC) of leaf decreased, while electrolyte leakage (EL) and Quantum efficiency of the photosystem II (F_v/F_m) increased. According to results, there were significant differences among genotypes, for example range of F_v/F_m among the selected hybrids varied from 550 to 879. Frequency of drought tolerance showed that 77. 27% of hybrids were susceptible to relatively susceptible and 22.72% were tolerant to relatively tolerant. Finally, according to the results from this study, ‘DT19’ hybrid was recognized as the most sensitive and ‘DT1’ hybrid was known as the most tolerant hybrid that could be introduced as promising and tolerant to drought stress for utilizing in the breeding programs.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Chlorophyll fluorescence؛ Electrolyte leakage؛ Leaf relative water content؛ Prunus dulcis Mill

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