The influence of soil water deficit imposed during various developmental phases on physiological processes of tef (Eragrostis tef)

Physiological responses of tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.)) to water stress during establishment, vegetative, flag leaf-1 and grain filling developmental stages were studied under glasshouse conditions in 2007 at Henfaes Research Centre, University of Wales, Bangor, UK using a “near-factorial” randomised complete block design. During each phenological phase plants were subjected to three levels of soil moisture tension viz., FC (−0.12 MPa), 50%FC (−1.06 MPa) and 25%FC (−1.51 MPa) until the completion of the specific phases and during the preceding and subsequent growth periods the stressed plants were irrigated to field capacity (FC).