Performance of Solanum aethiopicum Shum group accessions under repetitive drought stress.

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dc.contributor.authorNakanwagi, Mildred Julian
dc.contributor.authorSseremba, Godfrey
dc.contributor.authorMasanza, Michael
dc.contributor.authorKizito, Elizabeth B.
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-31T09:36:22Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-21T09:04:47Z
dc.date.available2018-01-31T09:36:22Z
dc.date.available2021-12-21T09:04:47Z
dc.date.issued2018-01
dc.descriptionDrought is a serious climatic hazard to crop production, more especially when it occurs repeatedly. This created a need to identify repetitive drought tolerant varieties that recover following exposure to drought. Twenty accessions of Solanum aethiopicum Shum group were evaluated for their response to repeated drought exposure in a screen house at Uganda Christian University stressed and well-watered conditions in a split-plot arrangement. January, 2018.en_US
dc.description.abstractDrought is a serious climatic hazard to crop production, more especially when it occurs repeatedly. This created a need to identify repetitive drought tolerant varieties that recover following exposure to drought. Twenty accessions of Solanum aethiopicum Shum group were evaluated for their response to repeated drought exposure in a screen house at Uganda Christian University stressed and well-watered conditions in a split-plot arrangement. Data was collected on growth and yield parameters namely leaf area, plant canopy width, plant height, plant branching, fresh leaf weight, fresh shoot biomass, and harvest index. Exposure of plants to repetitive drought stress led to significant decrease in all evaluated growth parameters at p<0.001 except for plant branching. Similarly, yield parameters exhibited a highly significant difference among accessions and between water levels at p<0.001. Principal component analysis of growth rate traits showed that leaf area contributed to the highest variation for recovery from repetitive drought stress among accessions. The accessions that recovered best from drought stress include SAS108/2015, SAS163/P/2015, SAS183/G/2015, and SAS168/G/2015. For yield parameters, the accessions SAS137/2015, SAS148/2015, SAS108/P/2015, and SAS160/2015 had the highest dry shoot biomass. These findings indicate prospect for improvement of tolerance to repetitive drought stress in S. aethiopicum Shum group.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNakanwagi, et al. Performance of Solanum aethiopicum Shum group accessions under repetitive drought stress. January, 2018.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11951/120
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectAfrican eggplanten_US
dc.subjectLeafy vegetableen_US
dc.subjectDrought toleranceen_US
dc.subjectPrincipal component analysisen_US
dc.subjectGrowth response.en_US
dc.titlePerformance of Solanum aethiopicum Shum group accessions under repetitive drought stress.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in the Academic Journals, Journal of Plant Breeding and Crop Science, Vol. 10(1), pp. 13-20, January 2018. DOI:10.5897/JPBCS2017.0690; http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/JPBCS/article-full-text-pdf/7039E1F55334
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