Soil Application of Wheat Straw Vermicompost Enhances Morpho-Physiological Attributes and Antioxidant Defense in Wheat Under Drought Stress

With the provoked environmental constraints under extreme climatic events, a better understanding of plant responses to these stresses helps in obtaining sustainable productivity. Wheat is significant cereal crop for burgeoning population; its yield significantly limited by too little water rhizosphere. The ramifications deficiency on wheat can be reduced application vermicompost. objective cope with drought stress, wire-house experiment was established where seedlings two cultivars, viz., Faisalabad-08 and Galaxy-13 (drought-tolerant -sensitive cultivar, respectively) were grown pots exposed mild (D1, 45% field capacity) severe stress (D2, 30% capacity). A control well-watered condition (70% kept comparison. Various rates straw vermicompost (control (VT 0 ), 4 t ha −1 1 6 2 8 3 )), used soil-filled treatments. Our data depicted that compared control, treatments recorded reduction morpho-physiological biochemical attributes maximum conditions. Nonetheless, it observed soil vermicompost, particularly at high rate, ameliorated negative effects drought. Under conditions, positive influence morphological physiological traits VT treatment, which increased root shoot length 27.55 27.85%, fresh weight 26.98 28.20%, dry 40 50.05%, photosynthesis transpiration rate 27.65 49.25%, respectively, average cultivars. Similarly, also adverse effect enhancing antioxidant enzyme activities as superoxide dismutase activity 14.28%, peroxidase 27.28%, catalase 50% treatment. Among Faisalabad-2008 showed comparatively more resistance against stress. findings this work revealed drastically growth productivity wheat; however, soil-applied positively influenced performance