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Improvement of drought tolerance in rice using line X tester mating design and biochemical molecular markers

Abstract

Background

Water stress, specifically the limited water resources needed to grow strategic crops, especially rice, poses a great threat to crop productivity. So, it was imperative that scientists all work together to try genetically improving the rice for drought tolerance in light of these environmental challenges. The aim of this study is trying to know the genetic behavior responsible for water-deficit tolerance in rice genotypes but at the molecular level. Moreover, this attempt will be an important leap in the process of genetic improvement in rice for water stress tolerance in Egypt.

Results

Twenty-three rice genotypes including eight parents and their fifteen F1 crosses or (the first hybrid generation) by line X tester analysis were evaluated for water stress tolerance during two experiments (the control and drought experiment) besides some molecular–biochemical studies for eight parents and the highest selected five crosses for water stress tolerance. The research revealed that five rice crosses out of fifteen hybrids were highly tolerant to water stress compared to the normal conditions. Data of biochemical markers indicated the presence of bands that are considered as molecular genetic markers for water-deficit tolerance in some rice genotypes, and this is the scientific progress achieved in this research. This was evident by increasing the density and concentration of SDS-protein electrophoresis besides enhancing the activities of peroxidase (POD) and polyphenol oxidase (PPO) under water-deficit conditions, which confirmed the tolerance of drought stress in the eight rice genotypes and the best five crosses from the first hybrid generation.

Conclusion

The five promising and superior rice hybrids showed an unparalleled tolerance to water stress in all evaluated traits under water stress treatment compared to the standard experiment. Also, biochemical and molecular parameters evidence confirmed the existence of unquestionable evidence that it represents the main nucleus for producing rice lines tolerated for drought stress under Egyptian conditions.

Background

Rice is considered one of the most important strategic crops for the majority of the world's population and a vital food and the main source of dry matter in developing countries, especially Egypt. Today, rice production takes place only in the delta of the Nile River because of limited water resources. Thus, the government of Egypt has tried to limit the cultivated area. Therefore, the problem of irrigation water limited in Egypt is considered a serious environmental constraint which results in the decline of rice areas that were to be planted (El-Mouhamady 2009). Moreover, Egypt's share of the Blue Nile water may decline in the coming years because of the construction of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. In fact, the rice plant is already sensitive to water stress. After all, it was presented with problems and risks due to drought stress or the limited irrigation water needed to grow rice. It became inevitable for scientists to try to devise water stress-tolerant rice lines through traditional plant breeding programs and genetic engineering and biotechnology techniques (Melandri et al. 2020). Rice genotypes such as Sakha 103, IET1444 and IET1444 x Giza 178 exhibited high averages in some agro-morphological traits of normal and drought conditions (El-Mouhamady 2009). Eldessouky et al. (2016) confirmed that some promising rice accessions exhibited high limit of water stress tolerance when evaluated under the control and stress experiment through estimated some agro-morphological traits. Singh et al. (2018) confirmed that selection based on stress tolerance indices like water stress tolerance efficiency, stress susceptibility index, stress tolerance index and stress tolerance level will result in identification of drought-tolerant accessions for rainfed ecosystem. The limit of water stress resistance capacity of a plant depends on the presence and efficiency of water-deficit adaptation mechanisms within its genome (Kim et al. 2020). Melandri et al. (2020) highlighted new breeding objectives for developing rice yielding stability under water-deficit conditions through evaluating 292 rice genotypes under field experiments in IRRI. Generally, there are two types of proteins that are originated in response to drought tolerance: functional and regulatory proteins (Oono et al. 2006; Feki et al. 2017). Moreover, drought stress causing stomata closure not only decreases water loss, but also limits CO2 diffusion into the intercellular spaces of leaves, leading to the elevated generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) (Suzuki et al. 2012; Noctor et al. 2014; Melandri et al. 2020). Plants have developed a complex antioxidant system from enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants to repair the oxidative damage caused by ROS (Ashraf 2009). Superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), polyphenol oxidase (PPO), glutathione reductase (GSH), peroxidase (POD) and ascorbate peroxidase represent major enzymatic antioxidants, whereas the main non-enzymatic antioxidants include ascorbic acid, α-tocopherol, carotenoids and glutathione (Mittler 2017). The non-enzymatic antioxidants are very important as they include phenolics and flavonoids, which not only defend plants against oxidative damage, but also they are useful in the treatment of various human diseases as a result of their medicinal properties (Bozin et al. 2008; ElSayed et al. 2019). After all that was presented in detail in this regard, we can briefly mention the aim of this investigation. It is an attempt to improve genetically water stress tolerance in rice plants in light of the water poverty, in addition to the development of drought-resistant rice lines by traditional plant breeding methods as well as modern scientific approaches in the field of molecular genetics.

Methods

Materials used in this study

The recent study was conducted in Sakha City Farm, Kafr El Sheikh Governorate, during 2018 and 2019 seasons. Eight rice entries with different reactions for water stress tolerance were used through line X tester mating design. The cultivars GZ 1368-S-5–4, Agami and Gaori were testers, while the cultivars were Sakha 101, Sakha 102, Sakha 103, Giza 172 and Giza 177 which were used as lines and are listed in Table 1, respectively.

Table 1 Various reactions for drought tolerance in the eight rice accessions

The parental genotypes were grown in three planting dates with a time difference of up to 10 days to overcome the differences in flowering among parents. Thirty-day-old seedlings of each parent were individually transplanted in the field in ten rows. Each row is 5 m long and includes 25 hills. At flowering time, a hybridization process among parents was conducted and the aforementioned fifteen crosses were produced in the summer season of 2018. In season 2019, parents and their 15 F1 crosses were grown under two levels of irrigation. The first level was normal irrigation conditions of continuous flooding, while the second level was flash irrigation every 10 days without any standing water. The stress experiment was applied 2 weeks after transplanting till harvesting. Individual plants of each genotype were transplanted in two rows of one meter long with 20 cm between hills (thirty plants for each entry) and replicated three times in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) for each treatment. The package of all other recommendations of rice sowing was followed in the same season (2019).

Note: Each irrigation experiment was a completely independent experiment and completely isolated from the other experiment. As the isolation distance was 300 m2, this buffer distance was covered with linoleum on both sides to prevent water infiltration from the standard experiment to drought experiment. The length of each replicate of each experiment was 20 m, and the space among each two plants was 20 cm into each replicate.

Attributes evaluated

Sixty guarded plants were taken from each genotype for each treatment at random to evaluate the following traits:

1. Heading date (days), 2. plant height (cm), 3. number of filled grains per panicle, 4. 1000-grain weight (g), 5. grain yield per plant (g), 6. maximum root length (cm), 7. number of roots per plant, 8. root volume, 9. root xylem vessel number, and 10. osmotic adjustment: It was determined by the formula of Morgan (1980).

Statistical analysis

It was done through the formula of IRRI (2005); heterosis and both types of combining ability effects (GCA and SCA) were calculated by Wyanne et al. (1970) and Virmani et al. (1997) as follows:

$${\text{Heterosis}}\;{\text{over}}\;{\text{the}}\;{\text{better}}\;{\text{parent}}\;\% = \frac{{\overline{F}_{1} - \overline{B} \cdot \overline{P}}}{{\overline{B} \cdot \overline{P}}} \times {\text{100 }}$$

where \({\overline{\text{F}}}_{{1}}\) =mean value of the first generation. \(\overline{B}.\overline{P}.\) =mean value of the better parent.

L.S.D. values were calculated to test the significance of the heterosis effects, according to the following formula suggested by Wyanne et al. (1970):

$${\text{L}}.{\text{S}}.{\text{D}}.\;{\text{for}}\;{\text{better}}\;{\text{parent}}\;{\text{heterosis }} = {\text{ t}}\sqrt {\frac{{2{\text{MSe}}}}{{\text{r}}}}$$

Estimation of combining ability effects

The analysis of variance for line x tester design including parents and crosses was computed according to Kempthorne (1957):

$${\text{GCA}}_{L} = \frac{{Y_{i..} }}{{{\text{Tr}}}} \, - \, \frac{{Y_{..} }}{{{\text{LTr}}}}$$
$${\text{GCA}}_{T} = \frac{{\sum {Y_{.j.} } }}{{{\text{Lr}}}} \, - \, \frac{{Y_{..} }}{{{\text{LTr}}}}$$
$${\text{SCA}} = \frac{{Y_{ij.} }}{r} \, - \, \frac{{Y_{i..} }}{{{\text{Tr}}}} \, - \, \frac{{Y_{.j.} }}{{{\text{Lr}}}} \, - \, \frac{Y..}{{{\text{LTr}}}}$$

where Yi.. = total of ith line over testers. Y.. = grand total. Y.j. = total of jth tester over lines. Yij. = value of ith line with jth tester. L,T,r = number of lines, testers and replications, respectively. L.S.D. values were calculated according to Wyanne et al. (1970) as follows:

$${\text{L}}.{\text{S}}.{\text{D}}. \, = \, t \, \times \sqrt {2{\text{MSe}}/r}$$

Molecular and biochemical studies

Since the problem of water stress is one of the most serious problems, its impact on the biochemical processes of the plant must be studied carefully. It was observed that the assessment of morphological and physiological traits alone is not sufficient to study the matter. But the estimation of some biochemical parameters such as SDS-protein electrophoresis besides estimating the activities of peroxidase (POD) and polyphenol oxidase (PPO) enzymes had the greatest impact to know the full effect of drought stress on the growth and productivity of the rice crop. Therefore, these biochemical tests were performed on 13 rice genotypes under studying (the eight parents and the highest five crosses from the first hybrid generation for water stress tolerance) measurement with the data of all agro-morphological and physiological traits, and they are as follows: 1: Sakha 101, 2: Sakha 102, 3: Sakha 103, 4: Giza 172, 5: Giza 177, 6: GZ1364-S-5–4, 7: Agami, 8: Gaori, 9: Sakha 101 X GZ1368-S-5–4, 10: Sakha 102 X Gaori, 11: Sakha 103 X Gaori, 12: Giza 172 X Gaori and 13: Giza 177 X GZ1368-S-5–4, respectively.

2′-azino-di-(3-ethyl-benzothiazole-6-sulfonic acid) diammonium salt (ABTS), purity < 98%, hydrogen peroxide of analytical grade (30% w/v), 1-chloro-2, 4- dinitrobenzene (CDNB), reduced glutathione (GSH), benzidine dihydrochloride, sulfanilic acid and catechol are the products of Sigma-Aldrich Co. All the chemicals and reagents used were of analytical grade.

Protein determination

Protein concentration was measured by the Bio-Rad (Bradford 1976) assay using bovine serum albumin as a standard. Measurements were taken on Shimadzu UV spectrophotometer at 595 nm.

SDS-protein electrophoresis

Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) was used to study the protein banding patterns of the three lentil genotypes under the control and ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) treatments. Protein fractionation was performed according to the method of Laemmli (1970) as modified by Studier (1973).

Preparation of crude homogenate

Fresh plant tissue (2 g) was pulverized in a mortar using liquid nitrogen and then homogenized in 6 ml of 50 mM cold Tris–HCl buffer, pH 7, containing 2 mM β-mercaptoethanol. The homogenates were centrifuged at 10,000 rpm for 20 min, and the supernatant was used as a crude material for enzymatic assays.

Enzyme assays

Peroxidase (POD) and polyphenol oxidase (PPO)

Peroxidase (POD) and polyphenol oxidase (PPO) were determined according to the method of Childs and Bardsley (1975) and Kar and Mishra (1976), respectively.

Glutathione S-transferase (GST)

Glutathione S-transferase (GST) was described by Habig et al. (1974).

Isozymes electrophoresis

Native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (Native-PAGE) was conducted according to Stegemann et al. (1985) to identify isozyme variations between controls and EMS treatments of three lentil genotypes. Two isozymes systems such as peroxidase and polyphenol oxidase were analyzed. After electrophoresis, gels were stained according to their enzyme systems with the appropriate substrate and chemical solutions and then incubated at room temperature in dark for complete staining. For peroxidase, benzidine dihydrochloride of 0.125 gm and 2 ml glacial acetic acid were mixed with distilled water up to 50 ml. Gel was placed into this solution, and five drops of hydrogen peroxide were added. The gel was incubated at room temperature until bands appear (Brown 1978; Manchenko 2002). For polyphenol oxidase, 100 ml of sodium phosphate buffer 0.1 M at pH 6.8, 15 mg catechol and 50 mg sulfanilic acid were used. The gel was placed into this solution and incubated at 30 °C for 30 min until bands appeared.

Results

Analysis of variance

All genotypes viewed in Table 1 exhibited high moral differences in both experiments for all attributes evaluated (Table 2). These scores included the impact of various drought treatments in ten characters of rice accessions, as well as detected highly significant variations among all sources of variation (SOV) of line X tester analysis for all studied traits under both treatments. The previous fact confirms that additive and additive X additive variations played an effective function in the genetic controlling and inheriting water stress tolerance in rice.

Mean performance

The data presented in Table 3 confirmed that the testers (TI, T2 and T3) and the crosses (L1 X T1, L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1) recorded the highest averages in all attributes estimated for both experiments and exhibited high trend of drought tolerance in this regard. The previous superior rice accessions (TI, T2 and T3) and the crosses (L1 X T1, L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1) besides the cross (L5 X T2) were recorded the highest mean values for grain yield per plant under both experiments, and the average data were as follows: 38.02 & 29.79 gm, 46.92 & 33.57 gm, 40.18 & 37.72 gm, 68.12 & 57.03 gm, 69.45 & 51.77 gm, 57.18 & 48.03 gm, 60.38 & 52.06 gm, 77.14 & 63.27 gm and 53.46 & 44.12 gm, respectively.

Heterosis over better parent

In Table 4, the crosses (L1 X T1, L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1) recorded significant and highly significant negative values of heterosis over better parent under both treatments for the traits such as heading date, plant height and osmotic adjustment. However, the crosses (L1 X T1, L1 X T2, L1 X T3, L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T1, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1) under both treatments for a number of filled grains/panicles and the same genotypes for the two experiments except the crosses (L1 X T3 and L4 X T1) under the same treatments besides and the cross (L4 X T2) under both conditions for 1000-grain weight exhibited significant and highly significant positive values for heterosis over better parent, respectively. Also, the crosses L1 X T1, L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T3, L5 X T1 and L5 X T2 for grain yield/plant trait under both conditions, the crosses L1 X T1, L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1 for maximum root length and number of roots/plant traits under normal and drought conditions besides, and the crosses L1 X T1, L1 X T3, L2 X T1, L2 X T3, L3 X T1, L3 X T2, L3 X T3, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1 for root volume and root xylem vessel number traits under both treatments exhibited significant and highly significant positive values of heterosis over better parent, respectively.

General and specific combining ability effects

Results obtained in Table 5 revealed that the genotypes line 3, tester 1 and tester 2 had highly significant negative or positive GCA effects (desirable) for all studied traits under the normal and water stress conditions. As for the crosses, the crosses L1 X T1, L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1 for all studied traits showed highly significant SCA effects in desired reaction (negative or positive) in both the normal and water stress conditions, as given in Table 6.

Molecular and biochemical studies

Protein electrophoretic pattern

Table 7 and Fig. 1 display a total of 6 bands with different MWs ranging from 17 to 70 KDa under normal conditions. All genotypes exhibit a low intense band with MW 70, except the genotypes L1 X T1, L2 X T3 and L3 X T3. The highest five hybrid genotypes L1 X T1, L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1 exhibit a sharp band with MWs 49 and 52, where these bands are absent in parent 1 to parent 8. A sharp band with MW 35 KDa was detected in the highest five hybrid genotypes, but its intensity decreases in genotypes from parent 1 to parent 8. Protein bands with MW of about 30 and 17 KDa showed the same trend. All in all, the highest five hybrid genotypes L1 X T1, L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1 show the highest intensity of bands from (1) line 1 to (6) tester 1.

Fig. 1
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Protein banding patterns in 13 rice genotypes under normal conditions. Lane 1 = marker, lane 2: 9 = eight parents genotypes and lane 10: 14 = the highest five hybrids, respectively

Table 8 and Fig. 2 show a total of 6 bands with different MWs ranging from 26 to 95 KDa under drought stress conditions. All genotypes exhibit a slight band with MW 95 KDa and an intense one with MW 55 KDa. A clear band with MW 48 KDa was detected in all genotypes except for the genotypes L1, T2, L1 X T1and L5 X T1. Bands with MWs 36, 34 and 26 KDa are present in all genotypes with a remarkable high intensity with a band of MW 26 KDa. From the above results, it is concluded that low molecular weight proteins which are located at the bottom of the gel have been intensified, while high molecular weight proteins which are located at the above of the gel have been weakened.

Fig. 2
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Protein banding patterns in 13 rice genotypes (eight parents and the highest five hybrids) under drought stress conditions. Lane 1 = marker, lane 2: 9 = eight parents genotypes and lane 10: 14 = the highest five hybrids, respectively

Effect of drought stress conditions on antioxidant enzymes in 13 rice genotypes

Under normal conditions, polyphenol oxidase (PPO), glutathione s-transferase (GST) and peroxidase (POD)-specific activities ranged from 0.045 ± 0.002 to 0.1 ± 0.01, 0.05 ± 0.007 to 0.19 ± 0.03 and 0.007 ± 0.001 to 0.025 ± 0.003 unit/mg protein, for all rice genotypes. Under desiccation compression conditions, the activities of antioxidant enzymes and partaking in the scavenging of ROS increased almost to double for PPO and GST with specific activities that ranged from 0.084 ± 0.004 to 0.19 ± 0.01 and 0.17 ± 0.02 to 0.37 ± 0.014 unit/mg protein for all rice genotypes. A drastic increase was observed in POD-specific activity which ranged between 0.15 ± 0.02 and 0.36 ± 0.023 unit/mg protein for all rice genotypes when compared with the normal conditions.

Antioxidant isozymes electrophoresis

Polyphenol oxidase (PPO) isozymes

Under normal conditions, only one major band for various intensities can be revealed for PPO in all rice genotypes (Fig. 3 and Table 9), while, under drought stress conditions, additionally three major bands were viewed with a gradual accretion in their intensities until genotype number 10 (L2 X T3), whereas they were completely absent in the last three rice genotypes L3 X T3, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1 (Fig. 4 and Table 9). The increase in band intensity and manifestation of novel fragments may be a signal for increasing PPO activity under drought conditions.

Fig. 3
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Electrophoretic patterns of the polyphenol oxidase isozymes for the 13 rice genotypes under normal conditions. Lane 1: 8 = eight parents and lane 9: 13 = the highest five hybrids, respectively

Fig. 4
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Electrophoretic patterns of the polyphenol oxidase isozymes for the 13 rice genotypes under drought conditions. Lane 1: 8 = eight parents and lane 9: 13 = the highest five hybrids, respectively

Peroxidase (POD) isozymes

Under normal conditions, only one sharp band can be detected for all rice genotypes except for T1 and L1 X T1 genotypes (Fig. 5 and Table 10), while, under drought stress conditions, one band appeared for each rice genotype with a marked thick band for the last four rice genotypes L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T3 and L5 X T1 (Fig. 6 and Table 10). This observation may be due to severe drought conditions which in turn induce POD to reach its ultimate vigor for neutralization of ROS released beneath thirst stress treatment.

Fig. 5
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Electrophoretic patterns of the peroxidase isozymes for the 13 rice genotypes under normal conditions. Lane 1: 8 = eight parents and lane 9: 13 = highest five hybrids, respectively

Fig. 6
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Electrophoretic patterns of the peroxidase isozymes for the 13 rice genotypes under drought conditions. Lane 1: 8 = eight parents and lane 9: 13 = the highest five hybrids, respectively

Discussion

Results shown in Table 2 gave a clear indication of the importance for successful genetic interaction obtained from line X tester analysis. The testers were credited with sifting and sorting all rice lines for drought tolerance. It was observed that this analysis contributed in some detail to clarifying the importance of additive gene action and its interactions which are responsible for water stress tolerance in rice. Hence, the five superior F1 crosses of rice for drought tolerance were the nucleus on which the simple selection program will be built after each segregation generation to reach rice lines with highly genetic stability and yield as well as resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses (El-Mouhamady 2003; El-Keredy et al. 2003a, b, c A; El-Mouhamady 2009; El-Mouhamady et al. 2011; Farid et al. 2016; Ramadan et al. 2016; Esmail et al. 2016; El-Mouhamady et al. 2016; Khatab et al. 2017; El- Demardash et al. 2017; El-Sayed et al. 2018; El-Mouhamady et al. 2019; Mwando et al. 2020; El-Mouhamady and Ibrahim 2020). Results viewed in Table 3 are related to mean performance of all studied traits under both experiments which may reflect the ability of water stress tolerance in rice using many mechanisms. Among these physiological mechanisms, the depth root system comes at the first. Because the depth root system during water stress helps the plant to reach the water stored in the far layers in soil, this mechanism enables it to preserve his life by doing a reasonable limit of biological, biochemical and physiological processes and in the end gives a good yield under this environmental pressure. In addition, the significant increase in the other root traits mentioned above also succeeded in making an integrated episode of drought tolerance mechanism in rice. In the same context, it was observed that osmotic adjustment trait was also of great importance in reducing the losing rate of the amount of transpiration water during the various metabolism processes and protecting plant cells from the phase of bilium. This is a new addition in the genetic improvement in rice to counter water-deficit conditions (El-Keredy et al. 2003a, b, c B; Abdel Sattar and El-Mouhamady 2012; Zian et al. 2013; El-Mouhamady et al. 2014a, b, 2021a; Heiba et al. 2016a, b; Yang et al. 2019; Al-Kordy et al. 2019; Sadiya 2020; Khatab et al. 2021).

Table 2 ANOVA test for all studied traits of rice accessions for both experiments of normal and drought stress conditions
Table 3 Mean performance of all rice accessions for all studied traits for the two experiments of normal and drought stress conditions

In the same vein, it can be said that the yield and root attributes besides osmotic adjustment modified were the most important field measurements of interest and appreciation. On that basis, it gave a complete and clear picture of the effect of water stress on the various genotypes of rice crop. This, of course, is to draw a trend that shows the nature of drought-tolerant trait in rice, depending on the results of these field measurements. Results obtained showed that the genotypes of the aforementioned superior parents and their hybrids had already succeeded in giving a good level in relation to the final output and its various components. Also, it showed a great superiority for the characters of the root system, which had a fundamental role in preserving the life of plants during a state of water stress. Also, developing a state of resistance to water stress through a high degree of genetic improvement was translated through genetic evolution in changing the high osmotic pressure and reducing it to safe limits suitable for physiological and biochemical processes with successful and safe form. This matter enabled the plant to continue in its life and give a good crop under drought conditions compared to the standard experiment. In the end, it can be said that this evaluation was a successful and fruitful one as well for sorting and sifting a large number of parents and their hybrids besides determining their function on the problem of limited water needed for irrigation (El-Keredy et al. 2003a, b, c; El-Mouhamady 2009; Eldessouky et al. 2016; Abo-Hamid 2016; El-Mouhamady and Habouh 2019). Results detected in Table 4 indicated the importance of dominance gene action and the interactions besides the fruitful role of SCA effects for controlling all attributes evaluated for water stress bearing in rice genotypes. This fact would reflect the success achieved in the genetic amelioration of drought tolerance in the previous superior rice accessions. Also, continuing to cultivate these promising rice genotypes for a few segregation generations may eventually lead to obtaining rice lines classified as high genetic stability and high water-deficit tolerance besides high output. This also shows that the hybrid vigor or its improved image according to the direction of each trait whether in the positive or negative direction was strong evidence for the genetic improvement to drought tolerance in this context. In addition, it indicated in a large and clear manner that these genotypes are the main nucleus for the production water stress rice varieties in the coming years. This is considered a major advance in facing the unfavorable environmental conditions by traditional plant breeding methods. Moreover, it was found that the noticeable superiority in all results obtained of rice hybrids over both parents, especially the supreme parent in most of all attributes under evaluating, is attributed to the transgressive segregation. This fact confirms that most of these traits coalesced and together created an integral circle to achieve a drought tolerance trait in rice. This also confirms that water stress tolerance trait is considering a quantitative trait and was affected by all the previously studied traits. This is the desired goal of the breeder in the breeding program to water-deficit tolerance in rice crop (El-Keredy et al. 2003a, b, c; El-Mouhamady et al. 2010, 2015; El-Mouhamady et al. 2012a, b, c; El-Mouhamady et al. 2012a, b, c; El-Mouhamady et al. 2012a, b, c; Eldessouky et al. 2016; Khatab et al. 2019). Data showed in Table 5 revealed that additive and additive X additive types of genetic variance were functioned a profitable turn for controlling and inheriting the previous traits under studying for the two experiments for enhancing water stress tolerance in rice plants and increasing the importance of GCA effects in this regard. Results observed in Table 6 indicated the magnitude of dominance variance, the interactions and the impacted function of SCA effects for inheriting all attributes evaluated beneath desiccation bearing in rice genotypes. In addition, the importance of this parameter is heterosis over better parent. This is clear evidence for the successful achievement of the genetic improvement to drought tolerance in rice. This will continue to cultivate and track those five promising hybrids for water stress tolerance in the coming segregation generations to reach the complete genetic stability to produce new rice lines that are tolerant of water-deficit stress. Also, producing high output indicates the fruitful role of additive, dominance gene actions and their interactions in plant breeding. Accordingly, the analysis combining ability effects had the greatest impact in determining how to deal with the genotypes under studying and to determine which ones are compatible with the other and which ones are incompatible. This will also help the plant breeder to better choose the parents involved in the design of the hybrid program in the following studies. This will, of course, lead to a desirable scientific complement to the genetic improvement in tolerance to salinity, toxicity of heavy elements, diseases and other environmental and biological challenges based on the desired results of tolerance and resistance for water stress in those genotypes in this context (Abo-Hamid et al. 2016; Tawfik and El-Mouhamady 2019; El-Mouhamady and El-Metwally 2020). After all results of the current study, especially the results of line X tester analysis, it was noted that all the measurements taken during the genetic analysis of all tested attributes under both conditions proved that the superior genetic accessions, whether from parents or hybrids, had the lead in achieving the desired goal. It is simply extraction rice genotypes enduring to water stress in order to be a high yielding Egyptian lines, in addition to resistant to unfavorable environmental conditions in the coming years. These genotypes have already succeeded during all studied genetic parameters in achieving positive results in the final yield obtained under water stress conditions compared to the normal conditions. Generally, it is well known that protein patterns are used as a good guide for plants under stress conditions (Radotic et al. 2000; El-Beltagi et al. 2010; El-Seidy et al. 2013; El-Mouhamady et al. 2014a, b; Kishk et al. 2017; El-Mouhamady et al. 2021a, b a & b). The presence of some bands under drought stress conditions and their absence from the control genotypes (Tables 7 and 8 and Figs. 1 and 2) could be referring to the activation of some genes related to drought stress conditions. This stimulation of gene expression is due to the low content of conservative genes present in the plant genus. These results are consistent with El-Mouhamady et al. (2020) and Yang et al. (2006) who found that gene expression pattern is changed upon exposure to high temperature. Our consequences are similar to Shafina et al. (2015) who analyzed 24 rice genotypes under drought stress conditions for proteins profile and Reshma et al. (2020) who studied the changes in leaf protein pattern of 12 maize genotypes under drought stress conditions. Figures 1 and 2 show that proteins located at the bottom of the gel are more intensified than those located at the above of the gel. This observation is in agreement with Najaphy et al. (2014). Najaphy et al. (2010) reported that drought stress conditions increase intensification of soluble proteins in chickpea leaves up to 43% in comparison with the standard treatment, but did not significantly affect electrophoretic protein pattern profiles. Drought stress conditions decrease the solubility of high molecular weight proteins and increase the solubility of low molecular weight proteins (Farshadfar et al. 2008; Moradpour et al. 2014). As a general adaptation strategy, plants enhance the activities of antioxidant enzyme to overcome oxidative stress conditions (Foyer and Noctor 2003). The present study showed elevated activities of PPO, GST and POD under drought stress conditions in comparison with the normal ones. Drought-induced dehydration leads to accumulation of specialized metabolites that are able to induce water retention and enhance the generation of ROS (Verslues and Juenger 2011; Nakabayashi and Saito 2015; Melandri et al. 2020). Our results are in consistent with that reported on Canola seedlings for POD and PPO enzyme activities (Ahmadi et al. 2015). Higher GST activity may be due to direct coupling between glutathione and protein to neutralize drought stress effect which is similar to the study reported by Reddy et al. (2005), El-Mouhamady et al. (2020) and El-Mouhamady et al. (2021a, b). GST overexpression leads to elevated accumulation of enzymatic and non-enzymatic components and plays an important role in repairing the effects of secondary oxidative stress generated during abiotic stresses (Roxas et al. 2000; Sharma et al. 2014; Rodziewicz et al. 2019). Other previous studies, as parallel with the present results, reported the increased POD activity under drought stress conditions in various plants, like liquorice (Pan et al. 2006), sunflower (Gunes et al. 2008), Brassica napus (Abedi and Pakniyat 2010), wheat (Weng et al. 2015) and barley (Hellal et al. 2020). All in all, the increase in POD activity is considered as a key point for the decomposition of H2O2, especially under catalase (CAT) inactivation (Abedi and Pakniyat 2010). CAT enzyme cannot be detected under our assay conditions as CAT has relatively weak coupling toward H2O2 with subsequent degradation in the presence of light which causes its photo-inactivation. Elevated accumulation of H2O2 causes CAT inactivation under severe drought and salinity stress conditions (Tanou et al. 2009). A decline in CAT activity has been observed under many stressful conditions (Radotic et al. 2000; Sharma and Dubey 2005). Figure 4 shows additional two major bands for the first 10 rice genotypes under drought stress conditions through PPO analysis. PPO new bands may be due to the induction of new compounds under drought stress conditions that regulate the activity of the antioxidant enzymes. The appearance of new isozyme bands may be used as a biochemical marker to differentiate drought-tolerant genotypes under drought stress conditions. Overall, the activation or inhibition of stress isozymes is combined with ROS level with quantitative changes in enzyme levels which observed intensities and number of isozyme bands under stress conditions (El-Mouhamady et al. 2020). Figure 6 shows the appearance of new POD bands and the increase in thickness of other bands under drought stress conditions. This may be considered as a response to drought stress conditions, leading to the enzymatic removal of H2O2 by POD (Abedi and Pakniyat 2010). Moreover, the band thickness also showed the resistance of the plants under drought stress. The drought stress will help in the hydrolysis that can result in the toxic compounds, which causes the inhibition of enzymatic activities (Mahajan and Tuteja 2005). Plants were able to neutralize the toxic compounds through the osmotic adjustment of cells, so the formed bands were thicker during the increase in drought stress levels (Herwibawa et al. 2014).

Table 4 Estimates of heterosis over better parent in 15 rice hybrids for all studied traits in both experiments of normal and drought stress conditions
Table 5 Evaluated of GCA effects in eight rice parents of all studied traits for the two experiments of normal and drought stress conditions
Table 6 Estimates of specific combining ability effects in the 15 rice hybrids for all characters evaluated under both normal and drought stress conditions
Table 7 Electrophoretic pattern of protein extracted from 13 rice genotypes (eight parents and the highest five hybrids) under normal conditions
Table 8 Electrophoretic pattern of protein extracted from 13 rice genotypes (8 parents and the highest five hybrids) under drought stress conditions
Table.9 Effects of the normal and drought stress conditions on polyphenol oxidase (PPO) isozymes for 13 rice genotypes (eight parents and the highest five hybrids)
Table 10 Impacts of the normal and drought stress conditions on peroxidase (POD) isozymes for 13 rice genotypes (eight parents and the highest five hybrids)

Conclusions

This study aimed to improve water stress tolerance in rice through the use of traditional plant breeding programs and biochemical and molecular genetic studies. Also, this research examined the evaluation of a large number of field and physiological traits under normal and drought conditions. Line X tester analysis and its parameters were the most important genetic parameters evaluated for all studied attributes under both conditions. The final results revealed that the rice genotypes (T1, T2, T3, L1 X T1, L2 X T3, L3 X T3, L4 X T3, L5 X T1) recorded high level of water stress tolerance depending on all genetic parameters data obtained in all studied traits under drought experiment compared to the normal treatment. Besides, biochemical and molecular markers results proved the existence of molecular and biochemical genetic evidence of drought tolerance in the previous genotypes through enhancing the activities of peroxidase (POD) and polyphenol oxidase (PPO) under water-deficit conditions which confirmed the tolerance of water-deficit stress in the eight rice genotypes and the best five F1 crosses.

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Abbreviations

1:

Line 1 or Sakha 101

2:

Line 2 or Sakha 102

3:

Line 3 or Sakha 103,

4:

Line 4 or Giza 172

5:

Line 5 or Giza 177

6:

Tester 1 or GZ1364-S-5–4

7:

Tester 2 or Agami

8:

Tester 3 or Gaori

9:

Line 1 X tester 1 or Sakha 101 X GZ1368-S-5–4

10:

Line 2 X tester 3 or Sakha 102 X Gaori

11:

Line 3 X tester 3 or Sakha 103 X Gaori

12:

Line 4 X tester 3 or Giza 172 X Gaori

13:

Line 5 X tester 1 or Giza 177 X GZ1368-S-5–4

L.S.D:

Least significant difference

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