BIOINFOLET - A Quarterly Journal of Life Sciences
Web of Science
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 3b

Influence of malathion on earhead caterpillar [Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner)] in sorghum cultivars

  • Author:
  • B. Kiran Gandhi, Shekharappa , R. A. Balikai
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 943 to 944

*All India Co-ordinated Sorghum Improvement Project, Dharwad, Karnataka - 580005

**Department of Agril. Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad - 580005

Online published on 12 August, 2013.

Abstract

Sorghum varieties CSV-15 and DSV-6 recorded least number of larvae (3.66/ear head). Treatment with malathion 5D recorded reduction in larval population in cultivars DSV-6 and CSH-14. On an average 85.2% larval population was reduced due to the application of malathion.

Keywords

Helicoverpa armigera, Sorghum cultivars, Malathion, larvae