Screening of chickpea entries against pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner)
Research Type
Departmental Research
Experiment Background
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) also known as Gram’ grown as rainfed crop in general in India and consumed as ‘Dal’ split cotyledons and chhole. Chickpea was attacked by eleven species of insect pests (Rahman et al., 1982). Among these pests, the pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) is the most serious one in most of the chickpea growing areas of the country (Begum et al., 1992). On an average, 30 to 40 percent pods were found to be damaged by pod borer with an average of 400 kg/ha grain loss (Rahman, 1990). In favourable condition, pod damage goes upto 90-95 percent (Shengal and Ujagir, 1990; Sachanand Katti, 1994).The development and use of less susceptible or tolerant cultivars may offer as one of the suitable components of eco-friendly pod borer management. Therefore, the present study will be proposed to find out sources of resistant to overcome pod borer occurrence. Different genotype with susceptible check used for this purpose.
Experiment Group
Agricultural Entomology
Unit Type
(01)RESEARCH UNIT
Unit
(39)MEGA SEED PULSES AND CASTOR RESEARCH UNIT (NAVSARI)
Department
(292)Nodal officer (megaseed) & Unit Head (seed), Pulses and Castor Research Station
BudgetHead
(328/12946/0A)328/01/REG/00216
Objective
To identify the resistant source against pod borer
Season
Rabi
Location Unit Type
(01)RESEARCH UNIT
Location Unit
(39)MEGA SEED PULSES AND CASTOR RESEARCH UNIT (NAVSARI)
Location Department
(292)Nodal officer (megaseed) & Unit Head (seed), Pulses and Castor Research Station