Coping with drought: stress and adaptive mechanisms, and management through cultural and molecular alternatives in cotton as vital constituents for plant stress resilience and fitness

Table 1 Effect of short-duration drought stress and recovery after re-watering at flowering stage on seed cotton yield (SCY) and its components in two different cotton cultivars under different K rates

Cultivar	Water regime	K level	Number of bolls/plant	Boll weight (g)	SCY/plant (g)
Siza 3	Control	0	14.6c	4.9c	71.41c
		150	16.8b	5.5a	93.20b
		300	18.2a	5.7a	103.15a
	Stress	0	7.6f	4.5d	35.94e
		150	11.3e	5.2b	58.68d
		300	12.9d	5.5a	67.98c
Simian 3	Control	0	16.1b	4.6cd	74.25c
		150	17.6a	4.9b	86.22b
		300	18.6a	5.2a	95.86a
	Stress	0	8.8e	4.2e	38.09f
		150	11.4d	4.5d	50.34e
		300	13.0c	4.7c	58.55d

For each cultivar, values followed by a different letter within the same column are significantly different at P ≤ 0.05 probability level. Each value represents the mean of three replications [114]

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