Simulated drought stress unravels differential response and different mechanisms of drought tolerance in newly developed tropical field corn inbreds

• Naidu Gopalakrishna K. ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naidu Gopalakrishna K., Kachapur Rajashekar M., Bhat Jayant S.

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: naidug@uasd.in

  Affiliation AICRP on Maize, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6079-037X

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• Rajeshwari Hugar ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ RH, SCT and CVP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

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• Kachapur Rajashekar M. ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naidu Gopalakrishna K., Kachapur Rajashekar M., Bhat Jayant S.

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation AICRP on Maize, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

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• Bhat Jayant S. ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naidu Gopalakrishna K., Kachapur Rajashekar M., Bhat Jayant S.

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Indian Agriculture Research Institute, Regional Research Centre, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

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• Sidramappa C. Talekar ,

  Roles Resources

  ¶‡ RH, SCT and CVP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation AICRP on Maize, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

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• Chimmad Virupaxi P.

  Roles Resources

  ¶‡ RH, SCT and CVP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

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