biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 23:182-185, 1981 | DOI: 10.1007/BF02894882

Drought resistance in pearl millet

B. K. Garg1, S. Kathju1, A. N. Lahiri1, S. P. Vyas1
1 Division of Soil-Water-Plant Relationship, Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, India

The influence of wilting on the levels of free proline, soluble proteins, reducing sugars, starch and on the activities of nitrate reductase, invertase, amylase and pyrophosphatases have been studied in the leaf tissue of five cultivars of pearl millet at their vegetative stage under pot culture conditions. The metabolic changes could not be correlated with the yield behaviour of the cultivars under a drought condition in the field.

Received: March 25, 1980; Accepted: August 18, 1980; Published: May 1, 1981  Show citation

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Garg, B.K., Kathju, S., Lahiri, A.N., & Vyas, S.P. (1981). Drought resistance in pearl millet. Biologia plantarum, 23(3), 182-185. doi: 10.1007/BF02894882
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