Morpho-Physiological Classification of Italian Tomato Cultivars (Solanum lycopersicum L.) According to Drought Tolerance during Vegetative and Reproductive Growth
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Vegetative Phase
2.1.1. Drought Stress Highlights Differences among Tomato Cultivars
2.1.2. Clusterization
2.1.3. Susceptible and Tolerant Cultivars
2.2. Reproductive Phase
2.2.1. Drought Stress Highlights Differences among Tomato Cultivars
2.2.2. Clusterization
2.2.3. Susceptible and Tolerant Cultivars
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Plant Material
4.2. Growth Conditions and Stress Treatment
4.3. Temperature and Relative Humidity
4.4. Soil Water Content
- θg = Gravimetric Water Content,
- mwater = mass of water contained in the samples,
- msoil = sample soil mass,
- mwet = wet soil sample mass,
- mdry = dry soil sample mass.
4.5. Relative Water Content
- RWC = Relative Water Content,
- TFW = Total Fresh Weight,
- BW = Bag Weight,
- DW = Dry Weight,
- TW = Turgid Weight.
4.6. Growth Index
- hf = final height,
- hi = initial height.
4.7. Stem Diameter
4.8. Efficiency of Photosynthesis
4.9. Leaf Gas Exchange: Stomatal Conductance and Photosynthesis
4.10. Morphometric Evaluation of Leaf
- Leaf Area (LA),
- Lamina Length (LaL),
- Lamina Width (LaW) (for this parameter 3 measures were taken for each leaf).
4.11. Stomatal Density
4.12. Statistical Analysis
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Conti, V.; Romi, M.; Parri, S.; Aloisi, I.; Marino, G.; Cai, G.; Cantini, C. Morpho-Physiological Classification of Italian Tomato Cultivars (Solanum lycopersicum L.) According to Drought Tolerance during Vegetative and Reproductive Growth. Plants 2021, 10, 1826. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10091826
Conti V, Romi M, Parri S, Aloisi I, Marino G, Cai G, Cantini C. Morpho-Physiological Classification of Italian Tomato Cultivars (Solanum lycopersicum L.) According to Drought Tolerance during Vegetative and Reproductive Growth. Plants. 2021; 10(9):1826. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10091826
Chicago/Turabian StyleConti, Veronica, Marco Romi, Sara Parri, Iris Aloisi, Giovanni Marino, Giampiero Cai, and Claudio Cantini. 2021. "Morpho-Physiological Classification of Italian Tomato Cultivars (Solanum lycopersicum L.) According to Drought Tolerance during Vegetative and Reproductive Growth" Plants 10, no. 9: 1826. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10091826