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Influence of repeated water stress on wheat Abstract. Fertility-induced performance alterations in wheat (cv Kalyansona) have been evaluated under two cycles of droughts at various developmental stages and also repeated droughts. The significant alleviation of growth and yield, despite the higher stress experienced by plants under improved soil fertility, seem to be related to larger root growth and greater post-drought nutrient uptake and not to favourable tissue water modulations. Limited wet-period interludes, under repeated stress, reduced these advantages. Stress-mediated increases in proline and free amino acids and decline in chlorophyll content in leaves followed established trends. Their levels, however, were relatively higher under better soil fertility. The proline accumulation was reduced in the second cycle of drought, as compared to the first, indicating an absence of hardening effect. Keywords. Water stress; soil fertility; wheat; nutrient uptake; metabolism. 1. lntroduction Effects of water stress on growth and yield of crops depend both on the degree of stress and the stage of growth at which it is experienced (Hsiao and Acevedo 1974; Lewis et al 1974; Sullivan and Eastin 1974). In this regard it has been reported (Lahiri et al 1973; Lahiri 1980) that adequate soil fertility substantially alleviates the adverse effects of drought on crop performance at all stages of growth. But this conclusion is essentially based on studies where a single cycle of drought was imposed, and there is hardly any evidence on the persistance of this advantage, when successive drought events occur at a specific developmental stage, within a short span of time. This paper relates some findings in this area. 2. Material andmethods Wheat （Triticum aestivum L cv Kalyansona) was grown in pots with 10 kg of loamy sand soil (7.1% clay, 5.6% silt, 63.1% fine sand and 24.1 %coarse sand and having 0.15% organic carbon, available phosphorus as P2O5 corresponding to 15 kg ha-1 and a