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Waterdeficit effects on canopy light interception, chlorophyll fluorescence, and stomatal conductance in Moroccan alfalfa genotypes

Waterdeficit effects on canopy light interception, chlorophyll fluorescence, and stomatal... Water deficit is the major constraints causing negative effects on forage crops in many regions worldwide especially North Africa. This constraint will aggravate because of climate change in the future. The present study aims to assess several physiological and biochemical parameters in three alfalfa varieties subjected to severe water deficit. Plants were irrigated with 100% ETc (crop evapotranspiration) water amount as well-watered and 50% ETc as water deficit. The results showed that water deficit significantly reduced dry matter (DM), photosynthetically active radiation (PARi), light conversion (ɛb) and electron transport rate in all the studied genotypes. Adis variety had the lowest DM reduction of 22.7% under water stress. Moapa (MO) showed a reduction of 51.5%. The lowest ɛb value of 1.57 kg/µmol m−2 d−1 was observed for MO under water stress. Overall, next to biomass and water uptake, the photosynthetic parameters may constitute additional reliable criteria for the selection of water deficit tolerant variety of alfalfa to support the breeding program by INRA for the Mediterranean well adapted alfalfa varieties. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Plant Physiology Reports Springer Journals

Waterdeficit effects on canopy light interception, chlorophyll fluorescence, and stomatal conductance in Moroccan alfalfa genotypes

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © Indian Society for Plant Physiology 2022
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2662-253X
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2662-2548
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10.1007/s40502-022-00668-7
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Abstract

Water deficit is the major constraints causing negative effects on forage crops in many regions worldwide especially North Africa. This constraint will aggravate because of climate change in the future. The present study aims to assess several physiological and biochemical parameters in three alfalfa varieties subjected to severe water deficit. Plants were irrigated with 100% ETc (crop evapotranspiration) water amount as well-watered and 50% ETc as water deficit. The results showed that water deficit significantly reduced dry matter (DM), photosynthetically active radiation (PARi), light conversion (ɛb) and electron transport rate in all the studied genotypes. Adis variety had the lowest DM reduction of 22.7% under water stress. Moapa (MO) showed a reduction of 51.5%. The lowest ɛb value of 1.57 kg/µmol m−2 d−1 was observed for MO under water stress. Overall, next to biomass and water uptake, the photosynthetic parameters may constitute additional reliable criteria for the selection of water deficit tolerant variety of alfalfa to support the breeding program by INRA for the Mediterranean well adapted alfalfa varieties.

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Plant Physiology Reports – Springer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 2022

Keywords: Alfalfa; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Leaf area index; Photosynthetically active radiation; Stomatal conductance; Water deficit

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