Physiological characterization and assessment of genetic variability, yield, and quality properties of gamma-ray-induced salinity tolerant soybean (<i> Glycine</i><i> max</i> (L.) Merrill) mutants


Atak C., Celik O., Gumus T., Meric S., Ayan A., Erdogmus M.

JOURNAL OF APPLIED BOTANY AND FOOD QUALITY, 2024 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Publication Date: 2024
  • Doi Number: 10.5073/jabfq.2024.097.017
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF APPLIED BOTANY AND FOOD QUALITY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Food Science & Technology Abstracts, Geobase, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Istanbul Kültür University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Soybean is an important industrial oilseed plant. As a relatively fast, flexible, cheap, and viable method, mutation breeding, which induces significant random genetic variations, is a widely used method in crop science. In the present study, we investigated physiological para meters, genetic variability, yield, and quality properties of salinitytolerant mutant plants derived from Ataem-7 and S04-05 soybean varieties by Cs-137 gamma radiation-induced mutations. The SM4 and SM3 mutants exhibited a greater genetic distance than all other salinity tolerant mutants did. SM3 mutant presented 16.8% lower lipid peroxidation under salinity stress. The most significant photosynthetic pigment increase was detected for chlorophyll b in SM4 and SM3 mutants, with values of 1.88 and 2.07-fold, respectively. The SM3 mutant exhibited the highest yield, at 437.6 kg/ha in the M3 generation, while AM1 presented the highest yield in the M4 generation. The AM1 mutant also had the highest pod count by 122.2 per plant. In the AM1 mutant, the photosynthetic pigment increase was tolerance, and also indicate the effectiveness of mutation breeding methods in agricultural breeding programs.