Journal of Horticultural Sciences

P. S. Kavitha ¹, T. N. Balamohan ¹, K. Poornima ¹, I. Van den Bergh ², D. De Waele ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Fruit Crops, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641 003, IN
2 International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain - Asia and the Pacific, c/o IRRI Khush Hall, Los Banos, Laguna 4031, PH
3 Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, Catholic University Leuven (K.U. Leuven), Kasteelpark, Arenberg 13, 3001 Leuven, BE

Abstract

The reaction of twenty-four new synthetic banana hybrids to Pratylenchus coffeae was studied under artificially inoculated pot conditions. Two banana hybrids, H-04-05 and H-04-06 were found to be resistant and ten hybrids, H-04-01, H-04-03, H-04-04, H-04-07, H-04-09, H-04-11, H-04-16, H-04-19, H-04-21 and H-04-24 were found to be tolerant to the lesion nematode, Pratylenchus coffeae and the remaining were rated as susceptible.

Keywords

Resistance, Banana, Hybrids, Pratylenchus coffeae.

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