Physiological and Biochemical Responses to Drought Stress and Subsequent Rehydration in the Symbiotic Association Peanut-Bradyrhizobium sp.

Table 1

Effects of drought and rehydration on the transpiration efficiency parameters.

Treatments	TE (g mL^−1)	CWT (mL)	DWfinal−DWinitial (g)
Control	0.023 ± 0.005^a	19.82 ± 3.23^a	0.37 ± 0.04^a
Drought	0.023 ± 0.007^a	16.44 ± 5.88^a	0.31 ± 0.05^a
stress
Rehydration	0.015 ± 0.004^a	16.30 ± 5.76^a	0.24 ± 0.08^a

TE: transpiration efficiency, CWT: cumulative water transpired in the stress period, DW_final: dry weight of plants recorded at the end of the stress period; DW_initial: dry weight of plants recorded at beginning of the stress period. Values are means ± S.E. (𝑛=6). Different letters in each column indicate significant differences at 𝑃<0.05 according to LSD Fisher’s test.