BIOINFOLET - A Quarterly Journal of Life Sciences
Web of Science
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 4b

Screening of rice varieties resistant against brown plant hopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Stal.)

  • Author:
  • Rakesh Kumar, Kalmesh Managanvi, S N Tiwari
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 730 to 731

Department of Entomology, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar- 263145, India

Online published on 3 January, 2013.

Abstract

Studies on new sources for resistance against rice Brown plant hopper (BPH) were undertaken under glass house conditions. Among the 191 National Screening Nursery (NSN) entries evaluated,Swarnadhan was found to be highly resistant, CN 1870 was resistant and HKR 05–22, JGL-16267, UPR 2973-18-2-1, CR 2499-68-10, WGL-309, CR 3080-3-2-5-2, NDR-359 and IR-64 were moderately resistant against Brown plant hopper.

Keywords

Evaluation, Brown plant hopper, Rice