Vol. 7, Issue 3 (2019)
Field evaluation of onion germplasm for resistance to purple blotch under cold arid conditions of Ladakh
Author(s): SA Ganie, Shahnawaz Ahmad Dar, BA Wani, Ashiq Hussain Lone, MI Makhdoomi, Muneeb Ur Rehman and Mushtaq Ahmad Wani
Abstract: Onion (Allium cepa L.) is one of the major bulb crop of India. Onion is most widely cultivated species of genus Allium and it belongs to family Alliaceae. It is having various uses such as vegetable, spice and as a medicine, so it is rightly called as “queen of kitchenâ€. An experiment was conducted to identify promising varieties of onion suited for cultivation under cold arid conditions of Leh, Ladakh during the kharif season of 2018. The main objective of the experiment was to evaluate the different varieties of onion against purple blotch under arid hill conditions of Leh, Ladakh. Treatments were eight onion varieties, namely Yellow Globe, Onion red, Rosa bella, Brown Spanish, Bhima Shakti, Local, Pinnari and Red Coral with three replications. The study revealed that under natural epiphytotic conditions only one genotype i.e., Red coral exhibited resistant reaction while Yellow globe, Onion red, Rosa Bella, Brown Spanish, Bhima Shakti, Local, and Pinnari were moderately resistant to purple blotch of onion.
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SA Ganie, Shahnawaz Ahmad Dar, BA Wani, Ashiq Hussain Lone, MI Makhdoomi, Muneeb Ur Rehman, Mushtaq Ahmad Wani. Field evaluation of onion germplasm for resistance to purple blotch under cold arid conditions of Ladakh. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(3):760-763.
