Lodging in winter wheat may cause serious losses in productivity, grain quality and harvest efficiency. To understand the lodging pattern with respect to morpho-physiological parameters, a field experiment was conducted at Research Farm, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India during rabi season with 24 wheat genotypes and laid out in randomized block design (RBD) with three replications. Results indicated that morpho-physiological parameters, viz., the stem strength of lodging tolerant genotypes was significantly higher due to thicker stem and lower second internodal length compared to susceptible genotypes. | Screening of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes for lodging tolerance using morpho-physiological traits
