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Drought resistance in pearl millet

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The influence of wilting on the levels of free proline, soluble proteins, reducing sugars, starch and on the activities of nitrate reductase, invertase, amylase and pyrophosphatases have been studied in the leaf tissue of five cultivars of pearl millet at their vegetative stage under pot culture conditions. The metabolic changes could not be correlated with the yield behaviour of the cultivars under a drought condition in the field.

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  1. Division of Soil-Water-Plant Relationship, Central Arid Zone Research Institute, 342 003, Jodhpur, India

    B. K. Garg, S. Kathju, A. N. Lahiri & S. P. Vyas

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Garg, B.K., Kathju, S., Lahiri, A.N. et al. Drought resistance in pearl millet. Biol Plant 23, 182–185 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02894882

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