Plant Soil Environ., 2006, 52(8):368-376 | DOI: 10.17221/3454-PSE

Genotypic response of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivars to drought stress implemented at pre- and post-anthesis stages and its relations with nutrient uptake and efficiency

A. Gunes, N. Cicek, A. Inal, M. Alpaslan, F. Eraslan, E. Guneri, T. Guzelordu
Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

Uptake of mineral nutrients in chickpea cultivars might be an important response in drought tolerance. An experiment under controlled conditions was carried out to study the genotypic response of 11 chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivars to drought and its relations with N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Fe, Zn, Mn and B uptake and uptake efficiency. Plants were grown either optimal or drought stress implemented at pre- (early drought stress, EDS) and post-anthesis (late drought stress, LDS) stages. Growth reduction of the cultivars as a response to drought significantly differed. The results of the study indicated that EDS had less detrimental effects on growth and nutrient uptake than LDS conditions. In general, drought tolerant chickpea cultivars accumulated more N, P, K, Ca, Zn, Mn and B in both drought stress treatments except for Zn and Mn uptake in LDS treatment. The total nutrient uptake efficiency of the cultivars were also very significantly correlated with the growth reduction ration (GR) both in EDS and LDS treatments giving correlation coefficients (r) of -7859 and -0.7678, p < 0.01, respectively.

Keywords: chickpea; drought; stress; tolerance; nutrient uptake efficiency

Published: August 31, 2006  Show citation

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Gunes A, Cicek N, Inal A, Alpaslan M, Eraslan F, Guneri E, Guzelordu T. Genotypic response of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivars to drought stress implemented at pre- and post-anthesis stages and its relations with nutrient uptake and efficiency. Plant Soil Environ. 2006;52(8):368-376. doi: 10.17221/3454-PSE.
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