Agricultural Science Digest
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2005
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue: 3

Evaluation of sunflower germplasm against alternaria leaf blight and rust diseases

  • Author:
  • Raghavendra K. Mesta, Gururaj Sunkad, Pramod Katti, I. Shankergoud
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 221 to 222

Regional Research Station, Raichur, (U.A.S.) Raichur - 584101, India.

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the reaction of 70 sunflower germplasm lines against Alternaria blight and rust for two seasons of 1998–99 and 1999–2000. Une 302 B was found highly resistant to rust was also moderately resistant to a1ternaria blight. Five lines exhibited the dual resistance.