Department of Biochemistry, College of Agriculture, Junagadh-362001, India.
A field trial was conducted to study the effect of water stress, benzyl adenine and their interaction on some relevant metabolic changes of groundnut plants at different phenophases. Most of metabolic components of leaves such as relative water content, membrane injury, chlorophyll a/b, total chlorophyll and chlorophyll stability index (CSI) were reduced with the reduction in soil moisture. Soaking of groundnut seed in 100 mg/L benzyl adenine (BA) followed by water stress at different phenophases improved the relative water content, membrane injury, chlorophyll a/b, total chlorophyll and chlorophyll stability index.
Chlorophyll stability index, groundnut, Arachis hypogaea L., membrane injury, relative water content
