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ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY
Volume 150, Issue 2, Pages 217-225Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7348.2007.00119.x
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advanced breeding inbred lines; hexoses; leaf water potential; photosynthesis; relative water content; starch concentration; sucrose; sucrose-phosphate synthase; total soluble sugars; transpiration
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Genetic differences in osmotic adjustment (OA) have been reported among chickpea ( Cicer arietinum) cultivars. In this study eight advanced breeding lines (ABLs) derived from a cross between CTS 60543 ( high OA) and Kaniva ( low OA) and Tyson ( medium OA) and Kaniva, along with the parents, were evaluated for OA, leaf carbohydrate composition and leaf gas exchange under dryland field conditions in India. The water potential (WP) decreased to lower values ( less than 22.5 MPa) in Tyson, M 110 and M 86 than in the other genotypes. With decrease in WP, OA increased by 0.5 MPa in Kaniva and CTS 60543 to 1.3 MPa in M 55. As the decrease in WP varied with genotype, when OA was regressed against WP M 39 and M 55 had greater increases in OA with decrease in WP than the remaining nine genotypes, including the parents. As WP decreased, leaf starch content decreased while total soluble sugars, hexoses and sucrose increased: the decrease in starch was much smaller in M 93 and M 129 than in Tyson and M 51, but genotypic differences could not be detected in the increase in total sugars, hexoses or sucrose. The rates of photosynthesis and transpiration decreased as the WP became more negative, but M 129 reached low rates of photosynthesis (2 mu mol m(-2) s(-1)) and transpiration at a WP of 21.7 MPa, whereas Tyson reached the same low rate at 22.4 MPa. While OA varied among the chickpea genotypes, the differences were not associated with the changes in carbohydrate composition or the rates of gas exchange at low values of WP. Further, the degree of OA of the 11 genotypes was not the same as when they were selected for differences in OA under rainout shelter conditions in the field in Australia, suggesting that OA may show poor stability depending upon the stress level, location or physiological stage of the plant. This suggests that OA is not a valuable drought-resistance trait to select for in chickpea breeding programmes.
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