Abstract
Drought is a major abiotic stress that occurs frequently due to climate change, severely hampers agricultural production, and threatens food security. In this study, the effect of drought-tolerant PGPRs, i.e., PGPR-FS2 and PGPR-VHH4, was assessed on wheat by withholding water. The results indicate that drought-stressed wheat seedlings treated with PGPRs-FS2 and PGPR-VHH4 had a significantly higher shoot and root length, number of roots, higher chlorophyll, and antioxidant enzymatic activities of guaiacol peroxidase (GPX) compared to without PGPR treatment. The expression study of wheat genes related to tryptophan auxin-responsive (TaTAR), drought-responsive (TaWRKY10, TaWRKY51, TaDREB3, and TaDREB4) and auxin-regulated gene organ size (TaARGOS-A, TaARGOS-B, and TaARGOS-D) exhibited significantly higher expression in the PGPR-FS2 and PGPR-VHH4 treated wheat under drought as compared to without PGPR treatment. The results of this study illustrate that PGPR-FS2 and PGPR-VHH4 mitigate the drought stress in wheat and pave the way for imparting drought in wheat under water deficit conditions. Among the two PGPRs, PGPR-VHH4 more efficiently altered the root architecture to withstand drought stress.
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