Department of Plant Breeding, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, 263145, India.
Mungbean yellow mosaic virus is one of the most important diseases of mungbean [V. radiata (L.) Wilezek] and urdbean [V. mungo (L.) Hepper]. it is transmitted through whitefly, Bemisia tabaci Genn. Resistant l.nes to virus and vector are from disease prone areas of India. The resistance is recessive and digenic. Screening for resistance can be done in the field by planting spreader rows and/or by mass-screening or individual plant screening techniques. In view of the resistance sources and inheritance of resistance, the breeding methodology involving varietal crosses and interspecific crosses of mungbean with urdbean and wild progenitor, V. sublobata, have been discussed along with the scope of induced mutations.
