Year: 2020 | Month: December | Volume 7 | Issue 2
Screening of Inbred Lines of Rabi Maize for Turcicum Leaf Blight (TLB) and Maydis Leaf Mlight (MLB) in Bihar
Ajay Kumar
Phool Chand
Biswajit Pramanick
Viresh Kumar
DOI:10.30954/2347-9655.02.2020.6
Abstract:
Turcicum leaf blight and Maydis leaf blight are the two most devastating diseases of rabi maize causing huge amount of yield loss in Bihar and entire part of the nation. So, development of resistant maize variety against these two diseases is very much needful. Screening of inbred lines against these two diseases is the demand for development of such resistant varieties using conventional or molecular breeding methods. Concerning this, a field experiment was designed to screen the resistant inbred lines of rabi maize. Total 29 inbred lines were considered in this study which was conducted at research farm of TCA, Dholi, Bihar for consecutive three years (2017 – 20). From this study, it was observed that among 29 inbred lines, 2 inbred lines, Dholi inbred – 2011 and 2015 were shown resistance to both the diseases during all three years of study. Other three inbred lines of Dholi centre viz. Dholi inbred – 2031, 2035 and 2038 were also shown resistance in initial year of study.
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