Exploration of the antioxidative defense system to characterize chickpea genotypes showing differential response towards water deficit conditions

Abiotic Stress Tolerance of Chickpea Genotypes Depends Upon Antioxidative Potential and Nutritional Quality of Seeds

“…Thirty chickpea genotypes, including cultivars and advanced lines, having different genetic background [9] were procured from the department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana from the harvest of April-May 2012. Seeds were grinded in a grinder and the contents were passed through 80 lm sieve to have a uniform powder.…”

“…Proline was extracted from 300 mg of chickpea powder with 3 % sulfosalicylic acid and estimated by the method described by Kaur et al [9].…”

“…Chickpea genotypes have been reported to exhibit differential tolerance towards these abiotic stresses, depending on their stress tolerance capacity [9,10]. Based on the stress tolerance index of a number of biochemical and growth parameters, viz.…”

“…Based on the stress tolerance index of a number of biochemical and growth parameters, viz. antioxidant defense system and seedling growth, water deficit tolerant and susceptible chickpea genotypes have been characterized [9]. The same genotypes have also been characterized for salt tolerance on the basis of seedling growth and antioxidative system (data not published).…”

Stage specific upregulation of antioxidant defence system in leaves for regulating drought tolerance in chickpea

“…It has been demonstrated that the antioxidative response is correlated with the tolerance of individual crop cultivars to drought (Kolarovic et al, 2009). Most of the studies reported in the literature either focussed on seedlings or if in the field then on one particular stage (Patel and Hemantaranjan, 2012;Kaur et al, 2012;Devi et al, 2012;Battana and Ghanta, 2014). The present study was conducted to study the antioxidant defence response at different developmental stages i.e.…”