Table 3.

Physiological and morphological traits associated with abiotic stress tolerance in potato

Abiotic stress	Target traits	References
Heat	High net photosynthesis	Dou et al. (2014), Reynolds et al. (1990), Wolf et al. (1990)
	High stomatal conductance	Reynolds et al. (1990), Wolf et al. (1990)
Drought	Low stomatal conductance	Moon et al. (2015)
	Low transpiration rate High WUE	Coleman (2008)
	High cell membrane stability	Rudack et al. (2017)
	Stay green	Ramírez et al. (2014), Rolando et al. (2015), Schafleitner et al. (2007a)
	High root mass system	Ahmadi et al. (2017), Iwama (2008), Wishart et al. (2014)
	High Leaf Area Index (LAI)	Iwama (2008), Romero et al. (2017)
	High biomass	Schafleitner et al. (2007a)
	High photosynthesis per leaf area unit	Romero et al. (2017)
Salinity	Growth index	Shaterian et al. (2008)
	Root growth	Murshed et al. (2015)