Agricultural and Biological Research

Screening for resistance and their mechanism of resistance against gram pod borer Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) on Chickpea.

Saxena Raviprakash Narayan*, PS. Singh, RS Meena, Bhabesh Deka and Punam Bagang

Screening for resistance and their mechanism of resistance against gram pod borer Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) conducted on chickpea during rabi season at Agriculture Research Farm, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, India. Subsequently the laboratory experiment was conducted in the Department of Bio-chemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University. Eighteen cultivars of chickpea genotypes were brought from Indian Institute of Pulses Research Kanpur and the genotypes were scaled for their relative resistance and susceptibility on a 1 to 9 scale while assessing these eighteen genotypes. This investigation of this study may be useful to know their mechanism of resistance against gram pod borer in chickpea.