All India Coordinated Research Project on Pigeon pea, Regional Agricultural Research Station, Warangal (Telangana State)
Online published on 3 December, 2016.
The Pigeonpea germplasms/genotypes were evaluated to identify the sources of resistance to Fusarium wilt disease. Screening was done at the wilt sick plot at RARS, Warangal, Telangana State, India. The experimental material consisted of seventy nine AICRP Pigeon peaentries with a check, fourteen advanced Warangal Pigeonpea entries and nine host plant differentials, which were screened against the wilt disease during Kharif season of 2015. Out of seventy nine entries, twelve entries viz., MAL-44, KPL-43, BRG-3, GRG-2013, TDRG-10-7, CRG-2012-25, MAL-43, ICP-7119, BRG-15-3, RVSA-07-10, RKVT-297and MAL-13 were found resistant to Wilt disease.
Screening, Germplasms, host plan differentials, Wilt disease, Pigeonpea
