Screening Chickpea Genotypes against Fusarium Wilt Disease under Controlled Conditions
Rakesh Kumar Yadav
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior-472004, M.P, India.
Manoj Kumar Tripathi *
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior-472004, M.P, India.
Sushma Tiwari
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior-472004, M.P, India.
Ruchi Asati
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior-472004, M.P, India.
Shailja Chauhan
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior-472004, M.P, India.
Shruti Paliwal
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior-472004, M.P, India.
Saloni Mandloi
Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur-482004, M.P, India.
Prerana Parihar
Department of Plant Pathology, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior-472004, M.P, India.
Purnima Singh
Department of Plant Pathology, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior-472004, M.P, India.
Niraj Tripathi
Directorate of Research, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur-482004, M.P, India.
Mohammad Yasin
RAK College of Agriculture, Sehore, M.P, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Ciceris is one of the economical important vascular root diseases affecting chickpea which can cause up to 90% yield loss during crop growth stages. In the present investigation, 71 chickpea genotypes including two controls viz., JG315 (highly resistant) and JG 62 (highly susceptible) were screened by artificial inoculation of pathogen causing Fusarium wilt under controlled conditions in poly house using Completely Randomized Design with two replications during Rabi 2022 with intention to identify potentially wilt resistant genotype (s). Disease incidence was evaluated across distinct developmental phases, specifically the seedling and reproductive stages, employing the metric of percent disease incidence. At the seedling stage, out of the 71 entries, 24 genotypes displayed resistance to the disease, 38 genotypes exhibited moderate resistance, five genotypes found to be moderately susceptible, three susceptible, and only one genotype showed high susceptibility. Upon reaching the reproductive stage, the disease reactions changed drastically as only one genotype was found resistant, 14 genotypes moderate resistance, 17 moderately susceptible, 25 susceptible and 14 highly susceptible.
Keywords: Fusarium wilt, chickpea, resistant, susceptible, genotypes, screening