Table 5.
The drought tolerance index (DTI) values of local maize plants from several accessions due to PEG concentrations.
| Maize accessions | PEG concentrations (%) |
Average | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | ||
| H | 0.495 | 0.655 | 0.690 | 0.713 | 0.861 | 0.683* |
| BI1 | 0.315 | 0.323 | 0.434 | 0.617 | 0.727 | 0.483 |
| BI2 | 0.107 | 0.285 | 0.441 | 0.570 | 0.704 | 0.421 |
| BI3 | 0.396 | 0.401 | 0.485 | 0.580 | 0.660 | 0.504* |
| SB1 | 0.264 | 0.285 | 0.414 | 0.650 | 0.734 | 0.469 |
| SB2 | 0.370 | 0.492 | 0.495 | 0.516 | 0.602 | 0.495 |
| SB3 | 0.280 | 0.475 | 0.462 | 0.327 | 0.431 | 0.395 |
| SB4 | 0.331 | 0.403 | 0.473 | 0.607 | 0.615 | 0.486 |
| SB5 | 0.407 | 0.529 | 0.645 | 0.697 | 0.806 | 0.617* |
| DS1 | 0.101 | 0.271 | 0.113 | 0.669 | 0.235 | 0.278 |
| DS2 | 0.456 | 0.476 | 0.548 | 0.601 | 0.743 | 0.565* |
| DS3 | 0.011 | 0.446 | 0.564 | 0.644 | 0.772 | 0.487 |
| DS4 | 0.128 | 0.414 | 0.569 | 0.600 | 0.624 | 0.467 |
| DS5 | 0.333 | 0.368 | 0.513 | 0.603 | 0.602 | 0.484 |
| MN1 | 0.295 | 0.380 | 0.488 | 0.515 | 0.588 | 0.453 |
| MN2 | 0.202 | 0.426 | 0.471 | 0.279 | 0.518 | 0.379 |
| MN3 | 0.290 | 0.446 | 0.513 | 0.555 | 0.755 | 0.512* |
Note: *indicates drought tolerance of each location.