Kaolin and Jasmonic acid improved cotton productivity under water stress conditions

作者：Muhammad Nazim, Muqarrab Ali, Khurram Shahzad, Fiaz Ahmad, Fahim Nawaz, Muhammad Amin, Shazia Anjum, Omaima Nasif, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi, Shah Fahad, Subhan Danish, Rahul Datta · 发表于：Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.07.043 · 被引用次数：38 · 研究领域：Research in Cotton Cultivation、Silicon Effects in Agriculture、Plant responses to water stress

Drought is one of the most emerging threat that causes a severe reduction in cotton plant growth and development. Being cotton is a major cash crop has great threat to prevailing drought events in Pakistan. A field experiment was conducted in Kharif season 2018 at Research Area of MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan to assess the role of foliar applied kaolin and jasmonic acid on vegetative growth, gas exchange and reproductive traits of cotton under normal irrigated and artificial water deficit conditions. The experiment was laid -out in a factorial randomized complete block design with split – split plot arrangement. Main plots were allocated for irrigation levels, sub-plots for two -cotton genotypes viz. NIAB − 878 and SLH − 19 while sub – sub plots for treatments of kaolin and Jasmonic acid. Water deficit stress was created by skipping irrigation at flowering for 21 days. Foliar sprays of Kaolin (5%, w/v) and Jasmonic acid (100 μM) were applied alone or in combination at 60 days after planntinon both to normal irrigated and water-stresse skip irrigation while irrigation water alone was sprayed in control plots. Both cotton genotypes responded variably to normal irrigated and skip conditions. Skipping irrigation for up to 21 days at flowering caused a significant decrease in leaf relative water content, SPAD values, net photosynthetic rate and seed cotton yield in both the genotypes. Seed cotton yield showed an overall decline of 24.7% in skip over Normal irrig...