GARLIC MOSAIC VIRUS DISEASE: OCCURRENCE ANDSCREENING FOR TOLERANCE

Abstract

Exotic and indigenous germplasm of garlic, an important spice crop, is
maintainedand evaluatedatNBPGRfor eventualexploitation in developing
high yielding and disease free promising varieties. The present note deals
with occurrence of garlic mosaic virus (GMV> disease in the gennplasm
collection and identification of promising tolerant lines to this virus disease
through field screening.