TO ASSESS THE RELATIVE DAMAGE/PREFERENCE OF SOME CHICKPEA VARIETIES (Cicer arietinum) FOR MANAGEMENT OF PULSE BEETLE Callosobruchus chinensis (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) IN STORED CONDITION

DINESH KUMAR SOLANKI¹*, DEEPAK KUMAR MITTAL^2
1Department of Zoology, Shri Satya Sai University of Technology and Medical Sciences, Sehore, 466 001, Madhya Pradesh, India
²Department of Zoology, Shri Satya Sai University of Technology and Medical Sciences, Sehore, 466 001, Madhya Pradesh, India
* Corresponding Author : solankidinesh0@gmail.com

Received : 20-05-2018     Accepted : 27-05-2018     Published : 30-05-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 10       Pages : 6144 - 6146
Int J Agr Sci 10.10 (2018):6144-6146

Keywords : Callosobruchus chinensis, Preference ,oviposition, Chickpea varieties
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Author thankful to Sri Satya Sai University of Technology and Medical Sciences, Sehore, 466 001, M.P., India for providing facilities and help to conduct study.
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

The pulse beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis L. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) is a one of the major pests infesting stored pulses and is distributed worldwide. Experiments were conducted to study the assess the relative damage/preference of varietal preference of C. chinensis L. to six different varieties of chickpea seeds i.e., JG-16, JG-63, JG-5, JGG-1, JGK-2 and JGK-3. In each replication, 100 healthy seeds of each variety of gram was kept separately in small plastic dishes, which was kept equidistant from one another in the peripheral part of the big circular glass trough. The results indicated that among all 6 varieties of gram differed significantly for ovipositional preference by C. chinensis. The number of eggs laid per 100 seeds of gram varied from 1.00 to 82.00. The JG-16 (1.00), JG-5 (1.33) and JG-63 (1.33) recorded significantly lowest number of eggs, were on par with each other and were significantly superior over all other varieties indicating that these varieties were least preferred by the pulse beetle for oviposition. On the other hand, more number of eggs was laid on JGK-2 (82.00) which was significantly different from other varieties JGK-3 (79.67) and JGG-1 (75.33) indicating that these varieties were mostly preferred for oviposition.

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