$School of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.
#Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430062, P.R. China.
Directorate of Rapeseed-Mustard Research (ICAR), Sewar, Bharatpur-321303, India.
*E mail: chirantan_cha@hotmail.com
Online published on 18 February, 2012.
Sclerotinia rot (SR), caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is a serious problem in oilseed Brassica grown worldwide. Seventy Brassica accessions belonging to B. juncea and B. napus were evaluated for resistance to SR by artificial stem inoculation with an Indian isolate of S. sclerotiorum in 2007–08 and 2008–09. Chinese B. juncea genotype Ringot I, and Australian B. napus accession BLN 3245 were found resistant to SR.
Host resistance, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Brassica juncea, B. napus, India
