Potato Journal
  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 34
  • Issue: 1 and 2

Combining resistance to late blight and pvy in Potato

  • Author:
  • Vinay Bhardwaj, S.K. Kaushik, S.K. Chakrabarti, S.K. Pandey, P.H. Singh, P. Manivel1, B.P. Singh2
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 41 to 42

1Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla-171 001, HP, India.

2Central Potato Research Institute Campus, Modipuram-250 110, UP, India.

Abstract

An attempt was made to develop potato hybrids with combined resistance to late blight and potato virus Y. Five crosses were made between the late blight resistant (PVY susceptible-nulliplex) and PVY resistant (duplex, late blight susceptible) parents and progenies were screened for both the diseases. The present study reveals that there is ample scope to combine high yield with late blight and PVY resistance in potato.