Research achievements in plant resistance to insect pests of cool season food legumes

Clement, S L and El-Din Sharaf El-Din, N and Weigand, S and Lateef, S S (1994) Research achievements in plant resistance to insect pests of cool season food legumes. Euphytica, 73 (1-2). pp. 41-50. ISSN 0014-2336

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Abstract

Plant resistance to at least 17 field and storage insect pests of cool season food legumes has been identified. For the most part, this resistance was located in the primary gene pools of grain legumes via conventional laboratory, greenhouse, and field screening methods. The use of analytical techniques (i.e., capillary gas chromatography) to characterize plant chemicals that mediate the host selection behavior of pest insects offers promise as a new, more rapid way to differentiate between insect-resistant and susceptible plant material. Examples of research achievements in mechanisms of resistance and host-plant resistance within the context of integrated control programs are discussed. Accelerating the development and subsequent releases of insect-resistant cultivars to pulse farmers requires more involvement from interdisciplinary teams of plant breeders, entomologists, plant pathologists, plant chemists, molecular biologists, and other scientists

Item Type: Article
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Uncontrolled Keywords: Insecta, grain legumes, host-plant resistance
Subjects: Others > Food Legumes
Depositing User: Ms K Syamalamba
Date Deposited: 09 Jan 2013 08:45
Last Modified: 07 Feb 2014 06:14
URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/6385
Official URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF0002718...
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