International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Biotechnology

  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 3

Biochemical basis of resistance to shoot fly (atherigona atripalpis wiede) in foxtail millet

  • Author:
  • Umeshkumar Sanjeev1,, P.S. Jagadish2, R. Mahendra1, D.T. Santosh3, N. Shashidhara4
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 221 to 222

1Biosystematics Laboratory, National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects (NBAII), Bangaluru, India.

2AICRP on Small millets, ZARS, University of Agricultural Science, GKVK, Bangaluru, India.

3Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur, India

4AICRP on Sunflower, ZARS, University of Agricultural Science, GKVK, Bangaluru, India

*E-mail: umesh.sanjeev@gmail.com

Online published on 5 April, 2012.

Abstract

An investigation was carried out to determine the biochemical basis of resistance to shoot fly (Atherigona atripalpis) in foxtail millet revealed that shoot fly do not prefer the foxtail millet (Setaria itlica L.) genotypes possessing lower moisture, crude protein and total sugar content for its oviposition and dead heart infestation.

Keywords

Crude protein, Foxtail millet, Moisture, Shoot fly and Total sugars