SCREENING OF DIFFERENT SORGHUM VARIETIES FOR RESISTANCE AGAINST SORGHUM SHOOT FLY
Department of Entomology, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology. Udaipur (MPUAT), Udaipur-313001. Rajasthan, India
CHANDRA BHAN, HEMANT SWAMI, LEKHA, AZAD MORDIA, S. S. LAKHAWATAND M.K MAHLA
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the resistance of different sorghum varieties against sorghum shoot fly ( Rondani) during , 2017 at the Agronomy farm, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur. Among all varieties, CSV-23 was observed better than the all other varieties with a minimum mean per cent oviposition (53.35) at 12 DAG. The variety CSV-23 was also
observed to be significantly superior over all the other varieties on the 14 , 21 and 28 day after germination with a mean dead heart of 11.22, 16.77 and 20.82 per cent, respectively was is at par with variety CSV 20 in the terms of oviposition and mean dead heart per cent.