SEARCH FOR FIELD TOLERANCE TO FUNGAL AND VIRUS DISEASES IN CHILLIES

Abstract

Various plant protection schedules for the control of diseases in chilli
have been advocated, however, the increased cost of chemicals and their
hci.zards have become limiting factors in the use of these control measures.
Most of the resistant varieties have been found associated with undesirable
horticultural characters (Kaur et al., 1986). Therefore, studies were conducted
to identify field tolerant genotypes to potentially important diseases (Table 1)
with acceptable horticultural characters which could be used in preventing
yield losses.