Screening of brinjal genotypes for resistant reaction against brinjal shoot and fruit borer (BSFB) Leucinodes orbonalis Guenee

The field experiment on screening of 22 desirable genotypes/varieties of brinjal was carried out to evaluate their comparative performance against brinjal shoot and fruit borer Leucinodes orbonalis, during Kharif 2017-2018with 22 treatments replicated three times, in Randomized Block Design. The significantly lowest shoot infestation of 0.89% was recorded in the cultivar, Susa local, followed by genotypes AKB-46, AKB-62, and Jayant which manifested shoot infestation of 1.92% 1.99%, and 2.04% respectively. The lowest fruit infestation on a weight basis of 4.89 per cent was manifested in local cultivar Susa Local, on par with genotype AKB-46 (8.07%). While lowest number basis fruit infestation of 4.52% reported in local cultivar Susa Local, par with Pune Kateri (8.38%). These genotypes would be of immense use in the breeding program for the development of resistant variety against L. orbonalis.