An experiment evaluating the efficacy of using droughttolerant
versus drought-susceptible parents in crosses aimed at
generating drought-tolerant progenies was also conducted
under lowland conditions at IGKV. In this experiment, lines
derived from 10 crosses among parents with similar yield
potential under non-stress conditions but with a large range in
yield under drought stress were evaluated under both stress and
non-stress conditions. The relationship between the stresstolerance
level of the parents and the performance of derived
lines under stress was examined.