Technologies
Title: | Mass rearing of Brinjal shoot and fruit borer |
Area: | Agricultural Sciences |
Sub Area: | Food development |
Focus Area: | Agriculture |
Developing Agency: | Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Bengaluru |
Technology Readiness Index: | Technology developed |
Email: | director.iihr@icar.gov.in |
Website Link : | https://iihr.res.in/mass-rearing-brinjal-shoot-and-fruit-borer-leucinoides-arbonalis-guenee |
Brief Description
Description : | Brinjal shoot and fruit borer is a typical holometabolous and monophagus lepidopteran pest. Sufficiently large population of different stages of this insect are needed to undertake screening of Bt transgenic Brinjal plants for challenge inoculation based resistance phenotyping. |