Morphological, Physiological, and Biochemical Characterization of Drought-Tolerant Wheat (Triticum spp.) Varieties

Table 3

ANOVA table for the influence of varieties and water management on morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics of wheat.

Sources of variation	Plant height (cm)	Spike length (cm)	No. of spikelet spike^−1	Relative water content (%)	Relative chlorophyll content (SPAD unit)	Proline content (µmol g^−1)	Total soluble sugar (mg/g)
Rep		ns	ns		ns	ns	ns
Variety (V)	ns			ns
Water management (WM)
V  WM	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns
Mean	56.23	5.25	10.69	69.52	44.22	3.43	48.34
CV	8.07	10.8	9.4	15.54	9.64	17.99	5.28
LSDV	5.27	0.66	1.16	12.56	4.95	0.71	2.96
LSDWM	2.15	0.27	0.47	5.12	2.02	0.29	1.21

Note. ns, not significant at  < 0.05, significant at  < 0.01, and significant at  < 0.001. CV, coefficient of variation; LSD_V, list significant difference of varieties; LSD_WM, list significant difference of water management.