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Asian Journal of Plant Sciences

Year: 2002 | Volume: 1 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 95-98
DOI: 10.3923/ajps.2002.95.98
Evaluation of Resistance in Some Wheat Cultivars to Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) under Laboratory Conditions
Nazish Bostan and Muhammad Naeem

Abstract: Two tests i.e., confinement and antixenosis were performed to evaluate the six wheat cultivars (MH-97, Sariab-92, Rawal-87, Margala-99, Chakwal-86 and Chakwal-97) against Tribolium Castaneum, during March-June 2001, using Randomized Complete Block Design. Data were collected daily for antixenosis test and by an interval of one week for confinement test. After applying statistical results, it was found that for antixenosis test all verities have shown highly significant results. For confinement test, it was found that Chakwal-97 was the most susceptible and Rawal-87 was most resistant. The result showed that there was variability in different wheat cultivars resistance and none of them found to be totally resistant. Although complete resistance was not possible, but some of wheat varieties could be used with specific genetic traits to develop resistant characters. These results also showed that the susceptible variety is most preferable by the pest, so it can be used as a quick and mass laboratory culture of RFB, which may be used in other scientific experiments.

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Nazish Bostan and Muhammad Naeem, 2002. Evaluation of Resistance in Some Wheat Cultivars to Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) under Laboratory Conditions. Asian Journal of Plant Sciences, 1: 95-98.

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