06-08-2013, 04:49 PM
Screening of chilli cultivars against wilt complex disease under intermediate zone of Jammu & Kashmir
ABSTRACT
Chilli (Hot pepper) is most widely grown vegetable crop under intermediate region of Jammu & Kashmir. It is cultivated both for green as well as dried red fruit yield. However, the chilli growers of this region are suffering in the recent past due to the chilli wilt complex caused by various biotic and abiotic factors making it very difficult to control the disease through any plant protection measure and necessitating the introduction of new chilli cultivars tolerant to the wilt complex. Therefore, in an endeavour to identify and screen new cultivars under intermediate zone, an experiment was conducted during kharif season of 2011 at Regional Agricultural Research Station, Rajouri, SKUAST-Jammu. Twenty four cultivars were grown in randomized block design (RBD) each replicated thrice. Perusal of data revealed minimum percentage wilt complex recorded by DKC-1 (12.4) followed by No. 1(12.6), DKC-8(13.3), CH-11-B (14.5), Pusa Sadabahar (16.4), KA-2(16.4) and IHR-546(16.8) which was found to be statistically at par with the check cultivar Pusa Jawala (15.8). Rest of the cultivars recorded significantly higher percentage of wilt incidence ranging from 18.6 to 57.9 as compared to check cultivar Pusa Jawala.