Drought Stress in Millets and Its Response Mechanism Author Tiwari, Anjali Author Kesarwani, Kapil Author Sharma, Arushi Author Ghosh, Tapan Author Bisht, Nisha Author Punetha, Shailja text Clinical & translational immunology 2022 2022-12-14 9 8 121 151 https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105942 journal article 10.5772/intechopen.105942 19247969

Table 3. Effect of water stress on millets crop.

Crop	Drought stress	Effect on plant	References
Finger millet	Drought stress was applied in two regimes (fully irrigated and after drought)	Significant reduction in leaf area, dry matter accumulation, seed weight, radiation use efficiency and yield	[21]
Finger millet	Drought stress was applied in two regimes (fully irrigated and after drought)	Results showed that reduction in plants growth, chlorophyll content due to drought stress	[22]
Pearl millet	After 3 weeks of germination drought stress was induced by ceasing water for 4 weeks	They observed a significant reduction in plant height, biomass, panicle, stalk length, no. of leaves, total grain number and weight	[23]
Finger millet and barnyard millet	Water stress was given (control, mild, medium, and severe condition	A significant reduction in chlorophyll content while MDA, proline and CAT activity increased during stress	[24]
Finger millet and barnyard millet	Water stress was given (control, mild, medium, and severe condition	Significant reduction in protein, carbohydrate, amylase and relative water content	[25]
Finger millet	Stress was given to plant by holding irrigation to 45-day old plants	Their results showed droopy, curling leaves, increased amount of proline, MDA, electrolyte leakage, Hydrogen peroxide and antioxidant activities.	[16]
Proso millet	Well- watered, drought stress at vegetative stage, ear emergence stage, seed filling stage and vegetative and seed filling stages	Drought stress results reduction in grain yield,Water use efficiency and harvest index	[26]
Pearl millet and sorghum	Controlled and stressed condition	Results showed that under water stress condition leaf water potential, rates of stomatal conductance, photosynthesis and transpiration decreased more in sorghum than in pearl millet	[27]