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house screening, feeding damage was recorded

to rate the resistance of the accessions (Table 7 ).

Based on the above-said resistance rating, a

major proportion of the germplasm was found

either susceptible or highly susceptible (Fig. 1 )

and five accessions namely Varushanadu Local,

PT 4287, Seijima Jeisei, Ac 238 and Roma were

identified as resistant/tolerant (Selvanarayanan

Table 1 Evaluation of resistance in tomato against fruitworm, H. armigera in the global perspective

Plant spp. (variety/

accession/line/cultivar)

Reports on resistance Reference

1030 Accessions cv. Tiny Tim to be resistant Fery and Cuthbert 1974

Popular cultivars cv. Pearson to be resistant Schuster 1977

L. hirsutum accessions High level of antibiosis Juvik 1980 ; Elliger et al. 1981 ; Isman

and Duffey 1982

3000 Accessions Few cultivars and many wild varieties found

resistant

AVRDC 1981 , 1985

Wild accessions High level of resistance Juvik et al. 1982

Few cultivars cv. Parker, Bonus and VEN−8 Lal 1985

Few cultivars Tolerance in cv. Red Clande and Urbana Farid 1987

800 Accessions Wild accessions free from damage Opena et al. 1989

8 Accessions cv. Rashen and Yusuporskii 40 found resistant Todzhaer and Ruzmetor 1993

12 Genotypes cv. Bingo most promising Santiago et al. 1998

Table 2 Evaluation of resistance in tomato against fruitworm, H. armigera in the Indian perspective
Plant spp. (variety/accession/line/
cultivar)

Reports on resistance Reference

124 Genotypes Biochemials like ascorbic acid Kashyap and Verma 1987
Wild types and cv. Paiyur 1 Less infestation in L. pimpinellifolium and cv.
Paiyur 1

Sivaprakasam 1988

19 Wild types and cultivars L. hirsutum f. glabratum Kashyap et al. 1990
Four cultivars Less damage in cv. Kanchan 3 Sharma et al. 1990
250 Accessions Less damage in Punjab Kesari, Punjab Chu-
hara, Sel 152 and Roma

Singh et al. 1990

70 Genotypes including 31 crosses Resistance in No. 122775 and the cross Rick
x Solan Gola

Kakar et al. 1990

69 Accessions Less damage in LE 206 x CO3 Janarthanam et al. 1992
12 Cultivars cv. Pusa Ruby found tolerant Shukla and Sharma 1993
16 Varieties cv. RT6–2, BT10, BT17, T30 and T32 were
resistant

Mishra and Mishra 1993

Wild accessions and cultivars LA 2992, LA 2449, LA 2531 found resistant Brar et al. 1995
Hybrids and breeding lines Less damage in Hybrids TH 802, TH2920,
TH818 and breeding lines No.48, 29, 21

Kaur et al. 1996

35 Varieties cv. Angurtala highly resistant Mishra et al. 1996
Ten cultivars cv. CO 3 found susceptible Sivaprakasam 1996
28 Genotypes Wild accessions and cv. HT 64 found resistant Rath and Nath 1997
Two indeterminate varieties Less fruit damage in Hybrid Naveen Kaur and Singh 1997
10 Cultivars and 12 hybrids Hybrids and cv. Roma tolerant Pandey et al. 1997
Popular cultivars and hybrids Hybrid Meenakshi susceptible than cultivars Sankhyan and Verma 1993
Few varieties cv. S12 resistant; cv. HS10 susceptible Thakur et al. 1998
Popular varieties Least damage in cv. HT 64 and HT 50 Shukla and Yadav 1998
24 Cultivars Pusa Early Dwarf, Arka Vikas, Pusa Gaurav
less susceptible

Chandrakar et al. 1998

cv. Pusa Ruby and 6 hybrids Hybrid Arjuna found resistant Chaudhuri et al. 2000