High heritability (more than 60%) and high genetic advance (more than 20%) for leaf chlorophyll content, number of productive tillers per plant, panicle weight and number of grains per panicle, and 1,000-grain 1,000-grain recorded by Laxuman et al. [ 22].
In order to facilitate application of the canopy reflectance model to heterogeneous forested areas, a simple correction scheme was elaborated, which was found to improve forest LAI predictions significantly and also provided more realistic values of leaf chlorophyll contents.
Soils with high VC rates (0.4 and 0.8 g/g) produced taller plants with more leaf and flower numbers, higher leaf chlorophyll content, greater plant biomass, and more total leaf area compared to soils with low VC rates (0.05, 0.1, and 0.2 g/g).
Therefore, reflectance in the green and red edge ranges can be used as more-precise measurements for developing leaf chlorophyll content estimation algorithms (Lichtenthaler et al., 1996; Gamon and Surfus, 1999; Gitelson et al., 2002).
Plants having more leaf area had the highest number of chlorophyll contents which might helped to enhance photosynthetic actives.
Therefore, SPAD measurement may be a more appropriate method than destructive measurement of leaf chlorophyll content for use in genetic analysis of leaf photosynthesis.
The total Chlorophyll contents after 30 DAS were not significantly different from other treatments (P = 0.99), except control (T1) (P < 0.001) Supply of more nutrients by vermicomposts as compared to soil may be the reason of enhanced leaf chlorophyll content in chickpea plants.
The sensitive and tolerant genotypes had similarly high leaf chlorophyll concentrations before submergence but, when submerged, the tolerant genotypes maintained more chlorophyll than the intolerant genotypes.
In every leaf, chlorophyll molecules are seizing the day for photosynthesis.
Leaf chlorophyll contents greatly depend upon leaf size and area.
