Erciyes University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Kayseri
Abstract
To investigate the physiological and agronomic traits affecting grain yield of wheat genotypes under saline and non-saline field conditions, an experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications during the 2018–2019 growing season at the Miandoab Agricultural Research Station, Northwest Iran. The treatments examined in this study comprised seven bread wheat genotypes, including the promising lines MS-91-14, MS-89-12, and MS-89-13, as well as the varieties Ofogh, Mihan, Narin, and Barat. Some physiological and agronomic traits of wheat, such as leaf chlorophyll content, as well as grain yield components like thousand-grain weight, number of grains per spike, number of spikelets per spike, and finally biological yield, grain yield, and harvest index (HI), were measured. The results of the comparison of mean data for the studied traits showed that among all genotypes and cultivars, the Mihan variety had the lowest values for the number of spikes per m2, grain yield, biological yield, and leaf chlorophyll. In terms of spike weight, the MS-89-13 genotype exhibited the highest values, whereas for thousand-grain weight, MS-89-12 showed the highest performance. Regarding the number of spikelets per spike, thousand-grain weight, biological yield, and grain yield, the Narin variety outperformed the others. With a grain yield of 4000 kg ha⁻¹ under saline soil conditions, Narin was identified as a soil salinity-tolerant wheat cultivar in this study. Therefore, it can be recommended for cultivation in saline soils to achieve higher grain yields. Among the genotypes, MS-89-13 also demonstrated relatively high grain yield, indicating its suitability for cultivation under saline conditions in this region.
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