TY - JOUR ID - 90835 TI - Identifying the most important traits affecting grain yield of wild wheat (Triticum boeoticum) under drought stress conditions JO - Desert JA - JDESERT LA - en SN - 2008-0875 AU - Moosavi, S.S. AU - Abdi, F. AU - Abdollahi, M.R. AU - Tahmasebi Enferadi, S. AU - Maleki, M. AD - Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran AD - Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. AD - Department of Molecular Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Biotechnology , National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Science, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 27 IS - 2 SP - 342 EP - 352 KW - Wild wheat relative KW - regression analysis KW - Path analysis KW - Water use efficiency DO - 10.22059/jdesert.2022.90835 N2 - Boeoticum specie is a valuable drought-tolerance gene source to breed wheat yield under stress. This study was done to identify the most important traits affecting grain yield of 10 boeoticum ecotypes under drought stress conditions for two years. Water use efficiency, fertile spikes number per plant and seed number per plant showed the highest positive and significant (p≤0.01) correlation with grain yield per plant. Water use efficiency, fertile spikes number per plant, seed number per the main spike, biological yield per plant, and water use (with a negative regression coefficient), as the most important traits, were entered into the regression model, respectively. The most direct effect on increasing grain yield was water use efficiency. Seed number per plant and fertile spikes number per plant, due to increased water use efficiency, showed the most indirect effect on grain yield.  Ecotype 5, as a drought-tolerant ecotype, showed a high water use efficiency by allocating more assimilates to yield components. It had a high grain yield. On the other hand, ecotype 6 was introduced as the most drought-susceptible ecotype with low-economical yield. In this study, high water use efficiency increased the traits related to seed number per plant. The ratio of assimilating allocation to aboveground or under-ground parts was the main mechanism for the adaptation of ecotypes. Therefore, selection based on these mechanisms will lead to the identification of drought-tolerant ecotypes for future wheat breeding programs. UR - https://jdesert.ut.ac.ir/article_90835.html L1 - https://jdesert.ut.ac.ir/article_90835_cd85a6ed6e7f401d689dfe2bb69252e3.pdf ER -