International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences RESEARCH ARTICLE PATHOLOGY SCREENING OF SOME CHILLI CULTIVARS FOR THEIR RESISTANCE AGAINST MELOIDOGYNE INCOGNITA.

Five cultivars of chilli, Capsicum annuum, were screened for resistance against Meloidogyne incognita in pot experiments. Three-week-old seedlings were inoculated with 1000 freshly hatched juveniles of M. incognita. Ninety days after inoculation the plants were uprooted and examined for galls, root and shoot lengths, fresh/dry root and shoot weights. The cultivar Pusa Jwala was assessed as moderately resistant with the minimum number of galls and variety PC-1 was highly susceptible developing the maximum number of galls. All the other varieties exhibited variable degree of susceptibility between Pusa Jwala and PC-1. This article can be downloaded from www.ijpbs.ne