Document Type : Original Article

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1 دانشیار گروه زراعت و اصلاح نباتات و گروه پژوهشی بیوتکنولوژی مقاومت به خشکی، پردیس کشاورزی و منابع طبیعی، دانشگاه رازی کرمانشاه

2 M.Sc. in Plant Breeding, Campus of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

3 Ph.D. Student of Plant Breeding, Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Campus of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

Abstract

Oat as one of the cultivated cereals in the most parts of the world has many food and medicinal properties. It has a potential to grow economically in Iran, but like other crops, drought stress could be a limitation in developing and getting desired production. So, in order to study the drought tolerance of 25 oat genotypes, an experiment was conducted in a randomized complete blocks design with three replicates under normal and drought stress conditions in Research Farm of the Campus of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran during 2012-2013 cropping season. Based on the potential (Yp) and stress (Ys) yields, 14 quantitative criteria of drought tolerance were calculated. A high positive and significant correlation was observed between Ys and Yp with MP, GMP, STI, YI, HAM, K1STI and K2STI which indicated that these indices were the most suitable indices to screen drought tolerant genotypes. According to all statistical procedures including calculated indices, ranking method, 3D plot, principal components analysis, biplot and cluster analysis, genotypes ‘Ufrgs948886’ and ‘Euro’ were known as superior genotypes under both stress and non-stress conditions.

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