Shaukat F and Anwar AS, 2023. Assessment of morphological and yield-related traits in Triticum aestivum L. Trends in Animal and Plant Sciences 1: 22-29. https://doi.org/10.62324/TAPS/2023.004

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Wheat is a staple grain food throughout the globe. Drought is an important abiotic stress which significantly reduces crop production. Crop plants response to drought stress through certain morphological and physiological traits. Wheat plant traits in response of drought stress are crucial to ensure high yield in drought conditions. Current study was conducted to check the various variations in wheat (Triticum aestivum L) genotypes at drought condition. Therefore, it is necessary to develop such varieties which are easily surviving in water scarcity areas. This research was held in the experimental field area of department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, LSD design with three replications was applied to study the different genotypes of wheat under drought stress. Thirty genotypes were used for study. Two sets of plots are design one in normal condition and other plot undergoes to drought stress. Results on morphological based shows that genotype 213 has shown good results at drought stress with minimum (18.267) reduction rate in Plant height, genotype 228 has shown better performance with minimum (1.6) reduction rate in Numbers of Tillers, genotype 215 has represents better conclusions with minimum (7.4) reduction rate in Spike Length, In Peduncle length genotype 217 shows minimum (6.8) reduction rate in drought stress. Genotype 202 has shown better performance with minimum (8) reduction rate. In Thousand Grain weight genotype 201 has shown better performance with minimum (32.567) reduction rate and in Grain Yield per Plant genotype 216 has shown minimum (3.367) reduction rate in drought stress. Therefore, in future by manipulate advanced breeding techniques, these genotypes have played an important character to provide path to liberal the drought resistance specie to encounter the problem of water lacking for agriculture region in Pakistan.