BIOINFOLET - A Quarterly Journal of Life Sciences
Web of Science
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 1a

Screening of tomato genotypes against buckeye rot disease

  • Author:
  • Tanuja Buckseth, Manish K. Sharma, S.K. Gupta
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 19 to 21

*Department of Vegetable Science, Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP)-173230

**Department of Plant Pathology, Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni, Solan, (HP)-173230

Online published on 26 August, 2016.

Abstract

After screening 40 genotypes of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) for buckeye rot, it was observed that two genotypes EC-2791 and EC-2798 exhibited resistance under field conditions, whereas symptoms appeared in EC-2798 after creating epiphytotic conditions in the laboratory.

Keywords

Tomato, Buckeye rot, Epiphytotic conditions, Screening, genotypes