Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is one of the most economically important pests tomato worldwide. Despite its global importance, management this oligophagous pest has still been a challenging task, due to high capability develop resistance against synthetic insecticides. Given limited studies on effectiveness different bio-pesticides in India, objective research was determine...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) production in tropical and subtropical regions of the world is limited by the endemic presence of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV). Breeding programmes aimed at producing TYLCV-resistant tomato cultivars have utilized resistance sources derived from wild tomato species. So far, all reported breeding programmes have introgressed TYLCV resistance from a single w...

Effect of some plant extracts against damping-off disease of some winter vegetable was studied in the net house. Seed treatment with neem leaf, garlic clove, allamonda leaf, ginger rhizome, kalijira seed, bel leaf, turmeric rhizome, katamehedi leaf and onion bulb were evaluated against damping-off, seed germination and growth characters of tomato, eggplant and chilli seedlings. All the treatmen...