Table 1 The effect of drought and high temperature prevailed during control, terminal drought and late sown conditions on the mean values of grain parameters across 16 genotypes evaluated during 2018–2019 and 2019–2020.

From: Image facilitated assessment of intra-spike variation in grain size in wheat under high temperature and drought stress

Parameter

Control

Terminal drought

Late sown

ISVAD of grain width

0.366a

0.354b

0.34c

ISVAD of grain length

0.617a

0.606a

0.59b

ISVAD of grain area

3.21a

2.9b

2.786c

ISVAD of grain perimeter

1.688a

1.659a

1.613a

Grain length/width ratio

2.137b

2.26a

2.215a

Grains spike−1

62a

54b

54b

Yield spike−1 (g)

2.71a

2.14b

2.1b

SGW (g)

0.045a

0.041b

0.039b

Spikelets spike−1

20a

18b

18b

Spike length (cm)

11.5a

10.6b

10.1c

  1. The letters(a–c) suffixed with the mean values of 96 observations (16 genotypes × 3 replications × 2 years) were derived from Duncan’s multiple range test (p < 0.05) and the means with different letters within each row are significantly different.