Vol. 7, Issue 8, Part A (2025)

The field experiment on screening of 20 desirable genotypes/varieties of brinjal was carried out to evaluate their comparative performance against brinjal shoot and fruit borer Leucinodes orbonalis, during Kharif 2024-2025 with 20 treatments replicated two times, in Randomized Block Design. The significantly lowest shoot infestation of 1.33% was recorded in the genotypes, AKBR-20-03, followed by genotypes AKBR-20-05, AKBR-20-06 and AKBR-20-11 which manifested shoot infestation of 1.33% 1.41%, and 1.52% respectively. The lowest fruit infestation 5.99 per cent was observed in AKBR-20-21, on par with genotypes AKBR-20-05, AKBR-20-03 and AKBR-20-06 with infestation 7.30%, 7.83%, and 7.86% respectively. These genotypes would be of immense use in the breeding program for the development of resistant variety against L. orbonalis.