1National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, India.
2Department of Biochemistry, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra-136119, Haryana, India.
Protease inhibitors in legumes are one of the most promising weapons that confer resistance against insects by inhibiting proteases such as trypsin present in the gut of insect larvae. In the present study, 60 cultivars of six indigenous legumes have been screened for trypsin inhibitor which ranged from 5.8 trypsin units inhibited/mg protein in cowpea (Pusa komal) to 76.7 trypsin units inhibited/mg protein in soybean (Pusa-20). All the crops also showed
Screening, legumes, trypsin inhibitor, Helicoverpa armigera