Activities of leaf and spike carbohydrate-metabolic and antioxidant enzymes are linked with yield performance in three spring wheat genotypes grown under well-watered and drought conditions

Table 1 Analysis of variance, mean and standard errors of the three genotypes for photosynthesis, stomatal conductance and transpiration rate under well-watered and drought conditions

Genotype	Photosynthesis (An, μmol m⁻² s^− 1)		Stomatal conductance (Gs, mol m^− 2 s^− 1)		Transpiration rate (E, mmol m^− 2 s^− 1)
Genotype	WW	D	WW	D	WW	D
L₁	17.4 ± 1	−1.63 ± 0.18	0.32 ± 0.06	0.03 ± 0.01	4.32 ± 0.55	0.39 ± 0.05
L₂	18.88 ± 1.61	0.63 ± 0.16	0.32 ± 0.08	0.07 ± 0.03	2.992 ± 0.20	0.3206 ± 0.08
L₃	16.84 ± 1.69	−1.17 ± 0.09	0.39 ± 0.05	0.02 ± 0.01	5.06 ± 0.48	0.4352 ± 0.07
P_G	0.13		0.83		0.002
P_W	< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001
P_WxG	0.87		0.45		0.005

WW Well-watered, D Drought, P_W, P value of drought effect, P_G P value of genotype effect and P_WxG P value of the interaction of drought by genotype

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