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To evaluate the responses of peanut to drought and waterlogging stresses, biomass of shoot and root, root鄄shoot ratio, root activity, SOD activity and MDA content in leaves at seedling and flowering鄄pegging stages were determined. A pot experiment with four different drought鄄waterlogging tolerance cultivars was conducted in rainproof greenhouse. Four water treatments were carried out as follows: normal irrigation (CK) , drought (7d, leaf wilting) , root waterlogging (1d, 3d and 7d, 2cm of water鄄depth over soil surface) and whole plant waterlogging (1d, 3d and 7d, water鄄depth over the canopy of plant). The results showed that drought stress decreased shoot dry biomass (SDB) and increased root鄄shoot ratio (RSR) at seedling and flowering鄄pegging stages, reduced root dry biomass (RDB) at seedling stage whereas elevated at flowering鄄 pegging stage. Waterlogging stress accelerated SDB, reduced RDB and RSR at both stages, and the effects of it aggravated with increase of water level and progress of time. For all cultivars, root activity decreased, but SOD activity and MDA content in leaf increased under drought and waterlogging conditions. After same time (7d) of water stresses, damage suffering from drought was much heavier than that from waterlogging, while that at flowering鄄pegging stage was much heavier http: / / www.ecologica.cn than at seedling stage. Comprehensive analysis based on changing of biomass and physiological indexes further revealed that there was large difference in drought and waterlogging tolerance among cultivars: Xianghua 55 had higher tolerance to drought and lower to waterlogging, Yuhua 15 had lower tolerance to drought and higher to waterlogging, Zhonghua 4 had the lowest tolerance to the two stresses, while Zhonghua 8 had the highest.

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